EVN Consortium Board of Directors
ASTRON, Dwingeloo - 29 November 2006


draft 1
(12 Oct 2006) 

Agenda: 

START TIME 09:00

1. Welcome to ASTRON					(tbd)

2. Welcome to CBD					(Mantovani)
   Acceptance/changes to the agenda

3. Minutes of the last CBD meeting			(Mantovani, All)
3.1 Review of action items from the
    last CBD meeting
3.2 Review of action items from the
    last Executive meeting

4. EVN matters
4.1 EVN PC Chairman's report				(Charlot *)
4.2 EVN Scheduler's report				(Porcas *)
4.3 Report from JIVE        				(Garrett *)
4.4 Report from MPIfR correlator			(Alef *)
4.5 Next Generation Correlator				(Garrett)
4.6 Software for proposal tool                          (Vermeulen)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

5. EVN performance and technical development 


5.1 Report from TOG					(Alef)
        Network performance and reliability
	Network calibration				(Reynolds)
	Field System
	Disks status
5.2 Report on recording systems + general discussion    (Alef + All)	
        MK5 Status					(Salah)
	PC EVN development                              (Mujunen)
	DBBC development + HAT                          (Tuccari)

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

5.3 e-EVN, e-VLBI					(Garrett,Conway)
5.4 Aspiring new telescopes:				(Gurvits)
        Evpatoria					(Konovalenko)
	Irbene						(Zagars)
        Simeiz                                          (Volvach)
	Azores, Portugal				(Garrett)

6. Global relations
6.1 IVS report and IVS 2010 report			(Schlueter)
6.2 NRAO report and VLBA operations			(Ulvestad, Walker*)
6.3 Haystack report					(Salah)
6.4 VSOP-2						(Hagiwara)
    European VSOP-2/Astro-G kickoff meeting report	(Gurvits)

7. Institutes Reports
7.1 Observatories written reports			(All *)
7.2 Planned engineering work at telescopes		(All)

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

8.  Science with the EVN
8.1 EVN PC view						(Charlot)
8.2 8th EVN Symposium Summary				(Garrett)
8.3 EVN 2010 report					(tbd)

9.  EU contracts
	RadioNet in FP6 and FP7				(Diamond)
	EXPReS						(Garrett)

10. Date and Place of the next meeting

11. Any other business 

18:00 Meeting's End 


N.B. Items with * following are submitted as written reports.