Dacopan project            MEETING MINUTES
               Jan 27th, 2004

Meeting
   Jan 27th, 2004, at 16.

   Class room C475
   Department of Computer Science
   Teollisuuskatu 23, Helsinki

Attendance
   Dimitri Korzun, instructor
   Kirill Kulakov
   Andrei Salo
   Andrei Ananin
   Mikhail Kryshen

   Jonathan Brown, chairman
   Carlos Arrastia Aparicio, secretary
   Alejandro Fernandez Rey
   Vesa Vainio
   Jarkko Laine
   Jari Aarniala
   Turjo Tuohiniemi, instructor


Absent
   Nobody was absent.


1. Start
   Mr. Brown started the meeting at 16:05.


2. Assessment of the situation
   - Second official meeting. The projected schedule was to merge 2
   question lists in one. These 'merged' questions will be asked to the
   customer Mr. Kojo, with whom the group was going to meet at 16:30.
   Unfortunately Mr. Kojo was unable to come because of illness.

   - The TWiki system is almost ready (Mr Laine installed it partially at
   http://www.cs.karelia.ru/~tkt_daco/twiki/bin/view/Main/DaCoPAn).

   - Each group prepared a list of questions.

   - Information about the members of the project as well as communication
   through email has been established. Results can be seen in the web site
   of the project.

3. Discussion

   3.A - Web system and templates:
      - The minutes of the meetings are, by the moment, available on
      ASCII format (.txt).
      - Supervisors and instructors must be separated in LaTex templates. It is 
      decided that the existing format of these will be changed as much as needed, 
      but little changes are expected. 
      - Information about the Petrozavodsk team members will be added to the web 
      system when exact (for instance, the roles). Accounts with access to the web 
      facilities will be given to every member of the project. Modifying rights 
      can be however limited to specific members, for example to web masters. The 
      interests of the Petrozavodsk team in the project are exposed and will be 
      also included in the web system.
      - TWiki system will be available from Jan 27th quite likely.
      - The document "Software Engineering Project: Distributed Approach" will be 
      attached and linked in the main website.
      - Some more information about the project organization and objectives, for 
      instance.
      - The working hours template that each member has to fill in will probably 
      be done through an existing perl script from University of Helsinki as soon 
      as it is translated to English.
      
   3.B   - The customer contact persons will be Mr Vainio and Mr Kulakov.
   
   3-C - The list of issues to be asked to the customer Mr Kojo are (more or 
   less):
      
      Those are the priority questions:
      - Educational / Analysis - Research purpose of the program.
      - Need of examples of animation.
      - How will the user use the program?
      - Which extensions are planned to be done later to the program?   
      (new protocols / more hosts)
      - Why using tcpdump? Which alternatives to tcpdump are available? Where can 
      we find material on tcpdump?
      
      Those are additional questions mentioned during the meeting:
      - Should a simplified version of the TCP protocol be shown? Which is the 
      level of detail to be visualized?
      - Is simulation of TCP a possibility? Simulation of hosts or whole network? 
      - Which is a better aim for the program: interactivity or visualization 
      (playback)?
      - Which number of hosts is suitable?
      - Which is the background knowledge on TCP of the customer?
      - Which functionalities will be suitable? Which services? 
      Administrator/User modes?
      
      Each member should discard questions during the presentation of the 
      customer, in case they will become obvious.
      
      It was planned during the meeting to organize the questions in groups.
      Unfortunately, only the category "General" was used.
      
   3-D - CVS Matters:
      It was decided that only 1 repository will be used for the moment. The 
      solutions can be using a 2 repositories and a 2-way mirror (unlikely, as the 
      appropriate software for merging them is being developed at the moment). 
      Mr. Salo had made a study about that issue. Other possibility would be 
      maintaining the CVS repository in one university for the half of the 
      duration of the project, and in the other university for the other half.

   3-E - Other issues:
      Next meeting will be held on Jan 28th at 12am (with Mr.Kojo).
      
         

4. Action points

   - Mr. Laine and Mr. Arrastia will take charge of the complete functioning of 
   the TWiki system.
   - Mr. Tuohiniemi will ask for the Petrozavodsk team members to be included in 
   the dacopan group account of the University of Helsinki system, so as they 
   have access to the ressources already available on the web system.


5. End
   Mr. Brown ended the meeting at 17:50.

---

Go back to DaCoPAnDocumentation