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Meeting start 9:00.

1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bach)
2. Welcome by Anton Zensus
3. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
4. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;Minutes from Jodrell 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. ()
   • NME results ()
   • Feedback from last sessions. ()
   • Amplitude calibration. ()
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)
    • Disk inventory and purchase status (Bach, all)
    • Future media requirements, Flexbuff upgrades (Bach)
11. Stations
    • Any news? (All)
    • …
12. Jumping JIVE
    • WP5. New stations.
13. eVLBI
    • Current status, new stations, 2 Gbps, …
    • Correlator capabilities.
14. EVN Sessions
    • Discussion about reorganizing the 73 EVN observing days between Sessions and eVLBI (Bach, all).
15. JIVE
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, ()
16. Technical Developments
    • Report on higher incremental recording rates up to 32 Gbps (Bach).
    • DBBC3. Current status. Backwards compatibility and available firmware ()
    • BRAND receiver ()
    • Available IF bandwidth at all bands, receiver developments (Bach)
    • Auxiliary scripts & central repository? (Bach)
17. Field System, status and new features
    • Status report, new developments (Himwich)
    • Next Generation Field System (all)
18. VLBA
    • VLBA status report ()
19. Long term future
    • Review of potential developments in the next 2-3 years
20. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
    • To be decided
21. AOB

Reception at the MPIfR at about 18:00.