=====  TOG - Agenda, March 19, 2018 =====

  - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bin Li, Vicente)**
  - **Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)**
  - **Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all; {{na:eratec:tog:tog-meeting-07:tog_2017_1_minutes.pdf|Minutes Ventspils meeting}})**
  - **Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see [[https://deki.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/Working_Groups/EVN_TOG/Current_Action_Items|  Action Items from last meeting ]])**
  - **Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see [[https://deki.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/Working_Groups/EVN_TOG/Permanent_Action_Items| Permanent Action Items]])**
  - **Reliability/Performance of the EVN ** 
      * Reliability/Performance of the EVN. New web page with Grafana (Blanchard)
      * NME results (Blanchard)
      * Feedback from last sessions. New Grafana web page (Blanchard)
      * Issues from last session (Campbell, Vicente)
      * New EVN communication channel: Mattermost (Blanchard)
  - **Amplitude Calibration **   
      * Quality of calibration. New web page (Blanchard)
      * Review of continuous cal: availability at stations (Vicente)
      * Continuous cal: processing at the correlator (Campbell, Blanchard)
      * Reminder of antabfs script (Vicente)
  - **VLBI backends **
      * DBBC2 firmware issues: V105E, V106 and PFB modes (all).
      * Other VLBI backends: MDBE
      * Other VLBI backends: OCTAD (Jung)
  - **Recorders: Mark 5,6, Flexbuf **
      * jive5ab & m5copy news? (Verkouter)
      * Status: Mark 5A/B/B+/C software, firmware, SDK9 (all, Verkouter)
      * Disk inventory and purchase status (Vicente, all)
      * Flexbuff status and 2 Gbps (all)
      * Possible flexbuff upgrades: more space (Vicente) 
  - **Stations**
      * Current status of eMerlin in the EVN (Varenius)
      * Status on Nk in Ghana. (Duah Asabere)
      * Kunming (?)
  - **EVLBI**
      * Current correlator capabilities and future ones.
      * KVAZAR network integration in the eVLBI. Dates.
      * 2 Gbps at the remaining stations.
  - ** Technical Developments **
     * 4 Gbps status. Last tests (Vicente)
     * Auxiliary scripts. Central repository (Vicente)
     * DBBC3. Current status, backwards compatibility and available firmware (Tuccari)
     * BRAND update (Tuccari)
     * Future backends compatibility: MDBE, CDAS2, DPV, DBBC3, OCTAD
     * Uniboard correlator.
  - **JIVE ** 
     * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru)
   - **VLBA ** 
      * VLBA status report (?)
      * Globals and recording compatibility
   - **Field System, status and new features **
      * Status report, new developments? (Himwich)
      * List of priorities for next version (All, Vicente)
  - **Long term future**
     * Technological developments for the future. How should we prepare: 1 GHz IFs? Optical fibers from Rxs?
     * Wide bands: low and high frequency bands
     * RFI: measurement and mitigation
     * DBBC3 tests & future implementation at the FS
  - **Jumping JIVE **
     * WPs
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
     * Granada.
  - **AOB **