Transformation Design and Operation Working Group Meeting 27
EGOWS 2007-working group Co-operation
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Transcript of EGOWS 2007-working group Co-operation
EGOWS 2007-working group Co-operation
EGOWS 2007-working group Co-operation
participants
discussion
what was benefits from EGOWS?
sharing of ideas
• Kees: works very well– get new ideas
• John: lot of differences a couple of years ago– less diff. later– sharing of ideas works
ideas
website www.knmi.nl/samenw/egow
s• how to organize EGOWS• add a forum ?• add a Wiki?• Heleen and Kees would like to do
– ask the KNMI management for being allowed to
• add a Photobook
see communication
• (ECMWF as moderator for between meetings communication)– ?
problems for cooperation
why is it difficult to cooperate?
• cooperation on little scale possible• in between: difficult
– risk of cutting resources– reliability on SW developed in other service
without contract basis?
• other extreme: official internationl cooperation (contract based)– at that stage the project/coop is safe
• technical problems (formats,standards)
communication
• not much communication between the conferences
not much communication between the conferences
• sometimes you ask by email and get answers (like Marie did for XMLobjects)
• communication between the conferences– would need a moderator
• ECMWF ?
– needs resources for this
• more meetings?• Internet communication to improve?
language
• English might be a problem • people can improve
resources
• you need more resources (critical mass) for starting a cooperation
• but: later you will save resources• AND: you will get the much better
product by using the ideas of all participants of a cooperation
Does it make sense to have only 1 system?
• maybe not– failover?
• in case one system fails, they could go NinJo or somewhere else
– need some concurrency to improve systems• more creative• open mind for world wide thinking
sorts of coooperation
develop open libraries (DB/..)
• share maintenance• can you rely on a tool/db on
voluntary base– need to rely on maintenance– need contracts or something– on own risc
• formal cooperation– needs more
why cooperation?