1. October 2005Thomas Baron – CERN-IT1 CERN response to RTAG Vision shared, with a somewhat different scope CERN as focus but not sole responsible (other centers have their own resources, expertise and support) At CERN: scope wider than only the LHC experiments

2. October 2005Thomas Baron – CERN-IT2 ACTIONS: 2005 (I) March: new AVC section regrouping: Audiovisual activities Videoconferencing activities Webcasting Event management softwares (CDS Agenda, Indico) Other collaboration tools (email; instant messaging; network; VoIP; phone conferencing ) in separate sections with specialised skills, but close collaboration AVC Section personnel and materials plan prepared for mgmt (taking account of RTAG12)

3. October 2005Thomas Baron – CERN-IT3 ACTIONS: 2005 (II) August: SMAC prototype installed – centralised infrastructure for automating the recording of lectures in CERN conference rooms Consolidation on one event management tool: CDS Agenda->Indico migration started Webcast possible in Council Chamber and IT Auditorium in addition to Main Auditorium – Portable AV production+webcasting equipment purchased September: Alcatel eDial automatic audioconference system in beta-test: http://audioconf.cern.chhttp://audioconf.cern.ch

4. October 2005Thomas Baron – CERN-IT4 ACTIONS: 2005 (III) October: start standardisation process of desktop/rooms videoconference equipement with CERN stores start restructuring of the CERN Videoconference web site. More documentation (FAQs…) will be added in the future November: New MCU service starts hosted by the Lyon IN2P3 centre de calcul. Collaboration between IN2P3, CNRS, INSERM and CERN – 2 Codian MCUs (total 52 ports) + 1 ISDN gateway

5. October 2005Thomas Baron – CERN-IT5 ACTIONS: 2006 Start refurbishing CERN videoconference rooms Provide a unique web interface/portal to fully organise meetings New Webcast server –Helix Unlimited universal license Indico using Grid certificate and/or personal certificates Consolidation of the Indico server infrastructure Better reliability, speed, availability Develope the synergies between the existing audio/video conference systems