1. Management Committee Summary Effort at CERN Operational Tasks Cost Sharing and New Expenses ZDC Collaboration Management roles Papers, Conferences and Author Lists Mailing Lists Upcoming Meetings Upgrade Dates of Upcoming Meetings 13/01/20101Management Committee Summary Quite long, but mostly routine. I will highlight problems and actions

2. Effort at CERN/Operational Tasks Cost Sharing Plenty of manpower at CERN – No immediate prospect of major departures – More students and others arriving – Need to be more efficient about sharing out ‘experienced’ resident tasks Calibration runs, routine checking Operational task accounting – OTSMOU figures for 2009 finalized – Initial 2010 estimate done, needs input and (small) updates – Will continue with current on-calls and duties, but may evolve with experience Very little operational expenditure – 1 new DCS PC – Cost sharing still very even – Need to follow-up on status of extra monitoring PC purchase – Upgrade expenditure to be reported to (refocused) Resource Committee 13/01/2010Management Committee Summary2

3. ZDC/Management Roles ZDC working and paid for – But they need more PPMs eventually – Maintenance (both H/W and effort) still a worry Reiteration of recent changes and plans – Steve appointed as ‘Project Dogsbody’ until 31 st September 2011 – Division of Upgrade reponsibilities Norman: Overall coordination and contact Jim: Simulation Andrei: MCM upgrade Sam: Phase I architecture Murrough: Phase II architecture – Still need new Documentation chief 13/01/2010Management Committee Summary3

4. Papers and Conferences Recent conference contributions – John Morris, TWEPP, calibration (TDAQ authorship) – Felix Muller, TWEPP, input tester (reduced authorship) Even for these papers, rules are getting more formal – Will be even tougher for papers with ATLAS authorship Upcoming Conferences: – IEEE Realtime: Lisbon 24 th – 28 th May, abstract deadline 28 th February – TWEPP: Aachen 20 th – 24 th September Further backup publications need to be finished – Digital processor – Preprocessor – Software Steve will request updates to TDAQ authorship 13/01/2010Management Committee Summary4

5. Mailing Lists Number and purpose (and naming) of L1Calo mailing list has become unwieldy Proposed simplification – All mailing lists maintained at CERN – Merge some related lists (software, calibration, cern) – New naming convention (via aliases) l1calo@cern.ch l1calo-operation@cern.ch l1calo-upgrade@cern.ch – Steve will circulate more details before implementation We should also try using other communication techniques – Sharepoint – Savannah 13/01/2010Management Committee Summary5

6. Upgrade Little to add to Norman’s summary Discussion of Phase I ‘partitioning’ – Design not finalized Architecture needs to become more concrete – However, it is clear some options might cause problems for effort sharing between institutes/funding bodies – In particular, can’t divide one main ‘Topological Processor’ Board Need to increase communication with L1Muon (and CTP) – Same is true for Operation 13/01/2010Management Committee Summary6

7. Upcoming Meetings Weekly meetings continue – Lengthen to include more recent work if needed General meetings convert to focused (technical?) sessions Jim and Sam organising Upgrade meetings Next Joint Meetings – CERN, 5 th – 7 th May – Subsequent one has several question marks Probably late September or late October Probably at CERN Probably more Upgrade emphasis May be ‘Joint’ with L1Muon and CTP Two important meetings next week – Monday 18 th – TDAQ Open Meeting – Tuesday 19 th – ATLAS Open EB – Both with include talks from Hans-Christian 13/01/2010Management Committee Summary7