Member Node Forum - 22 August 2013

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  (Occurs every 2 weeks on Thursday 3pm Brazil, 2pm EDT, 1pm CDT, noon MDT, 11am PDT, 10am AKDT or Friday 2am Taiwan)
  Upcoming meetings 5 September, 19 September, 3 October
 
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Previous epad(s):  
epad.dataone.org/MemberNodeForum-20120307  (note typo on year-sorry), -20130321, -20130404, -20130418, -20130516,  -20130530, -20130613, -20130627, -20130711, -20130725, -20130808

Attending:  Laura Moyers, John Cobb, Bruce Wilson, Mike Frenock, Rebecca Koskela, Dave Vieglais, Debora Drucker

Regrets: Inna Kouper, Kavitha Chandrasekar

Action items from last time:

Laura working with Debora Drucker (PPBio) to set up meeting with all affected personnel to make plans for implementing a D1 MN there.  Debora says that  "AndrĂ© reported today on advances on the Metacat transfer so things are going well."  See redmine ticket https://redmine.dataone.org/issues/3748 which indicates "PPBio Node is working on having the MN Tier 4 Node operational by  Sep/2013. Server is being transfered to LNCC (Petropolis/RJ) and  deployment in staging environment is planned to  take place in august." 
Meeting next week with all the Brazilians involved so everyone will have a good understanding of what DataONE is, then meet with DataONE personnel.
    
Agenda:

0. Welcome new attendees - introductions
    
1. Network-wide update and issues affecting MN's as a whole
    Dave: everything up and running normally
   
2. Open issues:  MNs please add anything you would like to address here.

3. Feature requests/opportunities for collaboration:
    Mike: working with Ben on installing new version of metacat on development side with metacat index; it kind of works (debug messages rolling out like crazy); 

4. MN showcase:  Member Nodes who are present, please discuss your status:
    PPBio and others: see above
    PISCO: experiencing power surges, so if PISCO MN disappears for a while that's why.  Mike wants to go back and check queries/results to make sure everything is fixed.

OTHER INTERESTING THINGS: 

contact points: 
NEW EMAIL contact: mninfo.dataone@gmail.com   - This email monitored by DataONE staff.  I think we might migrate to this being the primary point of contact for MN questions so we can keep a better handle on issues/resolutions.
Bruce: if there's a generic question, ask it here so that we can keep track of communications in case there are new people involved in the project.  We can still email directly with folks we are working with, but the hope is to maintain a history of common/useful questions/resolutions.

Laura - lmoyers1@utk.edu 865.974-7931 and/or 
Bruce - bwilso27@utk.edu 865-574-6651 

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