=====  TOG - Agenda, October 4, 2018 =====

  - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Vicente, Agudo)**
  - **Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)**
  - **Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;[[https://radiowiki.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=na:sustainability:tog:2018_03:tog_2018_1_minutes.pdf|Minutes from Shanghai 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 **
      * The 2 Gbps problem. V105E and V106E DBBC2 firmware (Blanchard, Vicente, all)
      * Reliability/Performance of the EVN. (Blanchard)
      * NME results (Blanchard)
      * Feedback from last sessions. (Blanchard)
      * Amplitude calibration. (Blanchard)
      * Grafana. A reminder (Vicente)
  - **Amplitude Calibration **   
      * Review of continuous cal at the stations (Vicente)
  - **VLBI backends **
      * DBBC2 firmware: V107 (de Vicente, Bach & all)
      * DBBC2 firmware: wastro mode 
      * DBBC2 firmware: PFB (information from stations).
      * Other VLBI backends: MDBE, OCTAD news
  - **Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf **
      * e-shipping: problems & solutions (Verkouter)
      * Flexbuff status and 2 Gbps (all)
      * Disk inventory and purchase status (Vicente, all)
      * Possible flexbuff upgrades: more space (Vicente) 
  - **Stations**
      * Status on Nk in Ghana. (James Chibueze)
      * Presentation of ROT telescope (A. Sargsyan)
  - **EVLBI**
      * Current correlator capabilities and future ones.
      * KVAZAR network integration in the eVLBI. Dates.
      * 2 Gbps at the remaining stations.
      * e-Merlin developments (Varenius)
  - ** Technical Developments **
     * Recent developments in Dwingeloo: White Rabbit and SDR (P. Boven)
     * Plan for higher incremental recording rates up to 32 Gbps.
     * DBBC3. Current status. Backwards compatibility and available firmware (?)
     * Auxiliary scripts & central repository?(Vicente)
  - **JIVE ** 
     * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru)
   - **VLBA ** 
      * VLBA status report (W. Brisken)
      * Globals and recording compatibility. Recorded Mark6 operations.
   - **Field System, status and new features **
      * Status report, new developments (D. Horsely)
  - **Long term future**
     * DBBC3 tests & future implementation at the FS
     * Review of potential developments in the next 2-3 years
     * EVN Science document. Chapter on Technology
  - **Jumping JIVE **
     * WP5. New stations.
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
     * To be decided
  - **AOB **