This meeting will follow the 2003 HPCS/OSCAR Symposium in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
   http://hpcs2003.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/
   http://oscar2003.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/


On Thursday there is a room switch, the morning is in the "Salon" room and the
afternoon is in the "Agora"room. However, the "Salon" room is reserved for our
use into the evening (10:30pm).  Building: Carrefour de l'Information (Bldg B1-B2)



Tentative Agenda Items

  * Benoit: [Thu 2-5pm] Open/Public portion & USherb lab tour (180 diskless nodes)
  
  * Design discussions/devel updates
      - updates will likely fall under the org-by-org presentations 
      - Multi-distro 
      - "New" Selector 
      - Installer overhaul 
      - mvc installer framework proposal 
      - Add/Del OSCAR Packages 
      - where to locate new installer in CVS?
  
  * Distilling OSCAR
      - RPM-izing OSCAR 
      - Benoit: OPD CDs? 
      - Distilling OSCAR to core/lib and
        starting an HPC-OSCAR working group? 
      - Seperate ia32/ia64 into different tarballs ('make dist' stuffo) 
      - Breakdown of CVS (keep things small, store RPMs elsewhere)
  
  * Feature list for 2.3 release
      - SystemImager 3.2 
      - RedHat 9.0 support (related/depends on multi-distro support) 
      - Multi-distro support 
      - New installer (or subset of new installer/proto-type installer)
  
  * Roadmap to SC'03 release (oscar-3.0)
      - Multi-distro support 
      - Add/Del/Update OSCAR Packages 
      - New installer 
      - RPM-ize OSCAR 
      - Maintenance tools/enhancements

  * Benoit: Node specialization, oscar package sets & more
  * Benoit: LDAP & Co support
  * Benoit: Security, host based or user based? OSCAR option?
  * Benoit: OPD "uber-package-listing?
  
  * Hardware abstraction layer
  
  * Presentation: ? - LSB tutorial/summary
  * Presentation: ? - Creating Perl binaries (parl, pp, ...)
  * Presentation: TomL - Book TOC presentation ("The book of OSCAR")
  * Presentation: RichL/Tim - stragegy discussion, long term goals, (coporate folks)