Products and Services March 2012

ESIP web infrastructure

• Nancy asked about not having web code
• Christine asked about github functionality
• Ken will ask Erin to document hosting service and github instructions to be sent around

State of the Art Document

• Christine walked through the Discovery Task example of this document
• trying to address pain points of the activity
• overview, problem statement, use cases, solutions, links to other information
• Christine and Hook added "Use cases" and Benefits to ESIP as headings/sections

Testbed Presentation Series: Testbed Portal, Chen Xu

• Comments
  • status:
  • roles and permissions -
    • what is difference between ESIP member and authenticated user?
      • what is the authentication plan for ESIP portal in general?
    • do multiple developers for a project have to be assigned by admin, or other manager?
    • Not sure of the purposed of "authenticated user" role - why is this necessary?
    • Carol pointed out having single sign-on for all ESIP portal functionality (Ajinkya is working on this issue)
    • What is the definition of "ESIP Member" in terms of the portal?
  • Community topics could be sent to email lists (Hook)
  • Are issues and comments the same (John?) - No
  • Some members would like to get started using the development version (Nancy)
    • Chen can admit registrations now - I'll send around the link
    • http://199.26.254.190/esiptestbed/
• Next month - Nancy Hoebelheinrich & Greg Janee (Preservation and Stewardship task)
• Carol reminded everyone that the call for sessions at the Summer meeting is out and ready

Telecon Schedule - April 9th @ 2pm CT / 3pm ET