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Transport from the hotel to the meeting place 8:30 (15 min), meeting start 9:00.

1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bach, Alastair)
2. Welcome by Phil Diamond and Simon Garrington
3. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
4. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;Minutes from Granada meeting)
5. Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see Action Items from last meeting )
6. Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see Permanent Action Items)
7. Reliability/Performance of the EVN
   • Reliability/Performance of the EVN. (Benito)
   • NME results (Benito)
   • Feedback from last sessions. (Benito)
   • Amplitude calibration. (Benito)
8. Amplitude Calibration
   • Review of continuous cal at the stations (Bach)
9. VLBI backends
   • DBBC2 and Fila10G news (Bach)
   • DBBC2 firmware: V107 (Bach & all)
   • Other VLBI backends: MDBE, OCTAD news
10. Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf
    • Recorder news/problems (all)
    • Flexbuff status and 2 Gbps (all)
    • RadioAstron disks at Bonn (Rottmann)
    • Disk inventory and purchase status (Bach, all)
    • Future media requirements, Flexbuff upgrades (Bach)
11. Stations
    • Any news? (All)
    • JBO updates (Cullen).
    • Activities at Mc, Nt, and Sr (Orlati, Surcis, Migoni).
12. eVLBI
    • Current status, new stations, 2 Gbps, …
    • Correlator capabilities.
13. JIVE
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru)
14. Technical Developments
    • Report on higher incremental recording rates up to 32 Gbps (Szomoru).
    • 32 Gbps the correlators view (Kettenis)
    • VOEvent demo (Kettenis)
    • pySCHED (Eldering)
    • DBBC3. Current status. Backwards compatibility and available firmware (Bach)
    • 2 Gbps at L-band (Bach)
    • Available IF bandwidth at all bands, receiver developments (Bach)
    • Auxiliary scripts & central repository? (Bach)
15. Field System, status and new features
    • Status report, new developments (Horsely/Himwich)
16. VLBA
    • VLBA status report (Brisken)
    • Globals and recording compatibility. Recorded Mark6 operations.
17. Jumping JIVE
    • WP5. New stations.
18. Long term future
    • DBBC3 tests & future implementation at the FS
    • Review of potential developments in the next 2-3 years
19. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
    • To be decided
20. AOB

Transport back to the hotel 18:00 followed by the meeting dinner at the hotel.