Progress Toward EPAC’06

Hywel Owen

ASTeC Daresbury Laboratory

EICC

EICC

ELTB

ELTB

• 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

(Sharon Fair, Julie Barnsley)

EPAC’06 Website is Live

…plus the test Website (Plone)

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)

search enginefont scalingmain navigation tabs

sub-foldersnavigation

print/e-mailshortcuts

your navigation treecoordinates

Website details

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

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

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!

Special glasses will be needed to use the new SPMS…