2nd SUMOVER Workshop

SUMOVER Project Status

Peter Kirstein

Piers O’Hanlon

Socrates Varakliotis

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Technical details

• WLAN (DHCP and NAT’d)– SSID: INET6– WEP key: INET6

• Presentations– http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/sumover/workshops/w

orkshop-15-16jan07/presentations/– (or via SUMOVER workshop page)

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Overview

• Agenda• Lunch arrangements• SUMOVER project status

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Workshop – Draft AgendaMonday 15th January10am Coffee10:30 Meeting start: Sumover status update11:30 Software management systems12:00 Presentation from Colin Perkins (AVT Working Group chair) on IETF activities12:30 Lunch14:00 RAT15:00 Coffee15:30 VIC

Presentation from Barz Hzu (NCHC)16:30 Talk by Tom Uram (ANL – AG Tech lead) 17:00 Future

Project plansNew features (e.g. DCCP support, new codecs, SRTP etc)

18:00 Day end

Tuesday 16th January10:00 Coffee10:30 Open discussion on future11:30 Optional tool dev session

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Lunch

• AskPizza?

• Or something else– Indian, Italian, Asian etc…

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Workpackages

• WP1 : Project management• WP2 : Code management systems

– Source code versioning, Bug/feature tracking, checking/testing tools, project management

• WP3 : Common code base– Bring together source code under ‘one roof’

• WP4 : Tools support– Provide some support for tools

• WP5 : Workshops– Bring together interested parties and community

• WP6 : Tools development projects– Develop some new interesting stuff and publish

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WP1 : Project management

• Project plan and budget• Project progress report

– Two reports issued, next due end of February

• Website– Info/Docs: Workshop docs/report, Project plan– Code management – Trac & Subversion

• Email lists setup– Web based system - mailman

• Workshop organisation• Project presentations made at:

– OSS2006, AG retreat 06, AHM2006

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WP2: Software management systems

• Surveyed a number of systems– Source code versioning systems

• CVS, RCS, Git, Bitkeeper, Arch, Subversion

– Bug tracking systems• Bugzilla, Mantis, Trac

– Static analysis tools, Testing suites, Doc systems

• Now running selected system– Trac with Subversion– Imported all existing code and history– Local and external users (ANL) active

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WP3: Common code base

Deliverable: D9: Common Code Base (May 06)• Surveyed existing patches

– ANL, VRVS, External (NCHC, Glasgow, ANU)

• Licensing– Staying with BSD style license– Re-organise code for external linkage of GPL components

• Have established collaboration partners– ANL, NCHC, Glasgow, ANU– Having regular AG based meetings

• Working towards convergence– First converged code base for AG (Early ’07)

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WP4: Tools support

Deliverable: D10: Tool Support (Oct 06)• Utilising new software management systems• Integrating in existing features

– E.g. H.264, MPEG4, Hardware Rendering, etc

• Coordinate with external developers– Direct email/conferencing, Sumover-dev mailing list

• Work with:– Users, AG-Tech, AGSC, inSORS

• Stimulate contributions from community– Code, Bugs, Features, Docs

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WP5: Workshops

• Organised and ran first workshop at UCL– Participants: 16 + 3 (AG remote)– Brought together ANL, VRVS, inSORS and others– Laid ground for continued collaboration– Discussed and ordered features list – on wiki– Platforms

• Support new Linux and WinXP versions, plus some OSX

• Second workshop is right here!– Continue on from first one.

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WP6: Tools development projects

• A lot of discussion at 1st workshop• Put up list of features/changes on Web

– Encouraging external input

• Selected a few new features as “dev projects”– Done: Logo sender, SSM, New codecs, GUI mods– Possible: Talk about that in Future section

• New video tool project– Collaborative effort with NCHC and ANU

• Most work being done in NCHC – Gstreamer based

– Regular meetings have enhanced SUMOVER collaboration

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Evaluation

• Internal evaluation– Progress reports (6 monthly)

• Two issued so far.

– Final project report

• JISC evaluation– JISC meetings– Project officer discussions

• Evaluation and steering advisory group (ESAG)– Hosted first evaluation meeting in

• Core workshop attendees and others