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Progress Toward EPAC’06

Progress Toward EPAC’06. Hywel Owen ASTeC Daresbury Laboratory. EICC. EICC. ELTB. ELTB. (Sharon Fair, Julie Barnsley). • Accommodation will be handled (free!) by ELTB • Provided list of direct flights to Edinburgh • Provided extensive information on Edinburgh/Scotland tourism,

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Progress Toward EPAC’06

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  1. Progress Toward EPAC’06 Hywel Owen ASTeC Daresbury Laboratory

  2. EICC

  3. EICC

  4. ELTB

  5. ELTB (Sharon Fair, Julie Barnsley) • Accommodation will be handled (free!) by ELTB • Provided list of direct flights to Edinburgh • Provided extensive information on Edinburgh/Scotland tourism, restaurants, etc. for website • Will provide a stall at EICC for tourist information and for delegates to organise tours • Suggested alternative venues for dinners and receptions • Will provide Edinburgh promotional materials for PAC ’05 • Happy to do a presentation at future LOC meeting

  6. EPAC’06 Website is Live

  7. …plus the test Website (Plone)

  8. EPAC'06 website works update • Runs on Plone(www.plone.org), an open-source platform-independent Content Management System • Standard features include: • - portal server: to allow log-ins from different users who can submit individual contributions (collaboration tool with membership structure system) • - built-in search engine tool • -live-editing (from the site itself) • - powerful template system • - data stored in built-in object database • - meets W3C's accessibility/usability standards • - modular object-oriented design based on Zope/Python • - complete separation of layout/content • - different content types available (news, links, documents, events etc)

  9. Website details search engine main navigation tabs font scaling your navigation tree coordinates print/e-mail shortcuts sub-folders navigation

  10. Present Status • Layout more or less finalised • Currently filling in content/information • Need to : • <> set up user structure/write-permissions by July 2005 • <> build links/interfaces to: • SPMS database • on-line registration forms (Trinity College Oxford?) • hotel booking forms (ELTB?) • Full website to go live in autumn 2005: www.epac06.org

  11. Edit Suite at EPAC’06 – Negotiation in Progress • No definite large source of PCs located • May be able to borrow some PCs to supplement internet café and larger flat screens for editors from RAL • Thus will need to hire some (if not all) • For comparison EPAC04 PC spec was: Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 256Mb RAM • Quote for hire from Hamilton Rentals • 25 * Compaq Evo D530 3.0Ghz CPU, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HDD, CD, LAN for 2 weeks • 40 * Compaq Evo D530 3.0Ghz CPU, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HDD, CD, LAN for 1 week • 15" screen + MS office included – bigger screens being sought • £8690 + VAT (this includes delivery, collection and installation) • Need insurance too: Hamilton were unable to quote at this time, but usually around 15% of rental price

  12. EICC Editing • EICC has Wireless and external Internet access • Network cost (£1000 / Mbit) seems high so looking at alternatives (e.g. temporary connection to JANET) • THUS may be able to give us a direct fiber into JANET – our (fast) academic network. • A couple of complications to work out there!

  13. Special glasses will be needed to use the new SPMS…

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