GridPP PMB Minutes 14 - 10th December 2001 ========================================== Present: Nick Brook, Pete Clarke, Tony Doyle, Steve Lloyd, Les Robertson ATD had had communication with regard to the 2002 collaboration meetings: Cambridge mtg. is confirmed for 14-15th February 2002 Manchester mtg. will be some time in May. IC meeting will shift from November to the end of September 2002, so as not to conflict with term time. LR updated the meeting on the CERN recruitment. In the recent interviews there were 11 qualified candidates (2 still have outstanding checks with referees) It had been agreed with Neil that options would be possible for contracts: (i) PPARC fellowship at a university on LTA; (ii) CERN fellowship, or (iii) CERN staff position. PPARC will decide on the contract to offer. SLL informed us that the peer review committee had met and had come to a decision. These would be announced pending comments from the Oversight committee. There was discussion on the meeting with the Oversight committee on 14th December. They had been little if any guidance from the committee of what was expected. The areas of recruitment, deliverables & milestones were highlighted as area of possible concern. PC explained the charts/spreadsheets proposed for monitoring DataGrid effort and the posts due to be allocated to applications. These will be discussed at the Technical Board (TB) meeting later this evening. ATD will update the current proposed status report to reflect the current posts. ATD will ask LR to ensure that the CERN resource manager should liase with DB. ATD reminded us that the CERN TB contact is Tony Cass.