Dear colleagues,

Attached is the final version of the agenda. Any changes will have to
be dealt with in the first item.

As mentioned in an earlier version of this message, could those of you
responsible for the usual reports from EVN officers and observatories,
please provide written reports to Tiziana Venturi by Friday, November
16. Items requiring written reports are marked below with an
(*). Please inform me if you should be listed for a report not yet
specified in the agenda.

NOTE: Please deliver the written reports by email to Tiziana
(tventuri@astbo1.bo.cnr.it), in ascii or STANDARD latex
format. Tiziana will place all reports in an anonymous ftp area and
will inform everybody of the access details.

Phil Diamond
Chairman, EVN CBD


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EVN CBD meeting 22 November, 2001, Jodrell Bank Observatory
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Begin meeting: 9.00
Location: JBO lecture theatre

[Items with (*) following are submitted as written reports]
[Items with (!) following are assumed to be short oral reports]

1. Welcome and changes/additions to the agenda - Diamond

2. Minutes of the last CBD meeting (*)
   2.1 Review of action items                  - Diamond
   2.2 Review decisions from last Executive
       meeting                                 - Diamond    (!)
   2.3 Review status of EVN observatories'
       memberships                             - Diamond    (!)
   2.4 HartRAO membership of the EVN           - Nicolson

3. EVN Program Committee matters
   3.1 EVNPC Chairman's Report                 - Garrington (*)
   3.2 EVNPC membership                                     (!)

4. EVN operations
   4.1 EVN scheduler's report                  - Schwartz   (*)
   4.2 EVN correlator report                   - Schilizzi  (*)
   4.3 MPIfR correlator report                 - Zensus     (*)
   4.4 Network Performance and Reliability     - Garrett    (*)
   4.5 JIVE user support                       - Garrett    (*)
   4.6 Thin tape supply and thin-tape-only
       stations                                - Garrett    (!)
   4.7 Tape shipping costs for non-EVN
       observatories                           - Garrett    (*)
   4.8 Array calibration (recent problems,
       plan for resolution)                    - Porcas

5. EVN technical developments
   5.1 TOG report                              - Garrett    (*)
      5.1.1 EVN Development Plans
            (field system, 2-head, etc..)      - Garrett
   5.2 EVN-2010                                - Schilizzi
   5.3 MkV & parallel EVN PC-based devs.       - Schilizzi/Urpo
   5.4 PCI                                     - Schilizzi

6. EVN Action plan                             - Diamond

7. Institute Reports
   7.1 Observatory written reports             - All        (*)
   7.2 Planned engineering work at telescopes  - Obs. Dir   (!)

8. Global relations
   8.1 EVN representation on other bodies      - Diamond    (!)
   8.2 NRAO report                             - Ulvestad   (*)
      8.2.1 VLBA correlation of EVN projects
      8.2.2 VLBI at the GBT
   8.3 VSOP                             Hirabayashi/Edwards (*)
   8.4 GVWG report                             - Schilizzi  (!)
   8.5 Radioastron                             - Kardashev
   8.6 Kalyazin                                - Kardashev
   8.6 Ventspills, Latvia                      - Booth
   8.8 EVN Web page                            - Garrett    (!)

9. EU Contracts (short reports)
   9.1 ARI FP5 Access Contract                 - Garrett    (*)
   9.2 RTD FP4                                 - Gurvits    (*)
   9.3 ICN FP5 in Radio Astronomy              - Schilizzi  (!)
   9.4 ICN FP5 SKA consortium                  - Butcher    (!)

11. Funding and Cooperation Proposals
    11.1 Second-generation space VLBI missions - Gurvits    (!)

12. EVN and JIVE Annual Reports                - Gurvits    (*)

13. EVN Data archive                           - Venturi

14. VLBI schools and Symposia
    14.1 Report on ASI School in Castel San
         Pietro Terme                          - Mantovani  (!)

15. Date and place of the next meeting

16. Review of mailing list for CBD meetings                 (!)

17. Any other business




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