Service Funding

Financial

• Initial Investment
  • Room videoconference equipment
    • ATLAS
      • 40-4-C01
      • 40-S2-D01 (or C01)
      • 40-R-C10
      • 40-R-D10
      • 40-S2-C01 (or D01)
      • 40-4-D08
    • CMS
      • 40-R-B10
      • 40-2-A01
      • 40-5-A01
      • 40-S2-A01
      • 40-S2-B01
    • ALICE
      • 160
      • ???
    • LHCb
      • ???
• Yearly costs
  • Room videoconference equipment maintenance
    • IT-UDS believes this maintenance should done as a standard maintenance contract offered by the equipment reseller. The conditions and prices should be further discussed
    • ATLAS
      • 40-4-C01
      • 40-S2-D01 (or C01)
      • 40-R-C10
      • 40-R-D10
      • 40-S2-C01 (or D01)
      • 40-4-D08
    • CMS
      • 40-R-B10
      • 40-2-A01
      • 40-5-A01
      • 40-2S-A01
      • 40-2S-B01
    • ALICE
      • 160
    • LHCb
      • ???
  • Services
    • Room operation support
    • PC maintenance
    • Projector maintenance
    • VRVS Support
    • Event recording
    • Live Webcasting
    • Video storage and serving
    • Live event retransmission between CERN amphitheatres

Manpower

• Technical Support
  • 1 operator (funded by IT-UDS)
  • 1 operator (unfunded post as from 1st September)
• Engineering
  • 1 VRVS PJAS (funded by IT-UDS)
  • 1 videoconference engineer (unfunded post)
  • 1 software engineer (unfunded post)

Open questions

It is difficult to discuss funding issues at least before having a clear idea of the services expected by the experiments. The following questions are intended to help solve this question.

• room refurbishing
  • Which rooms for ATLAS, LHCb and Alice?
  • Should each experiment pay for equiping "its" rooms?
    • If so, what does "its" mean? How can we define the level of priority for booking the rooms?
  • Or should all experiments contribute to a common fund in view of this global equipment?
    • If so the contributions could be calculated according to the relative usage of the rooms
    • The contributions could be spread over the expected life time of the systems (5 years)
    • The contribution could be added as a forfait also including other services (filming, webcasting...)
• videoconference equipment maintenance
  • Which maintenance contract should be established? (more details about the different possibilities will be provided at a later stage)
• Videoconference support
  • Planned interventions or on request?
  • User training? In which form (personal tutorials or general training sessions)?
• VRVS support
  • What kind of support could CERN and the experiments provide to Caltech in order to preserve the service?
    • IT-UDS already contributes to VRVS support by hosting a PJAS (which activity goes far beyond CERN). In the current situation, IT-UDS feels its contribution should not go further
• Lecture recordings
  • Simple videos or web lecture objects or both?
  • How should the work be split between U. of Michigan and CERN?
  • In which rooms? If only a limited number of rooms is needed, then they could be equiped permanently as is the main auditorium.
  • Self-service or with operators?

-- ThomasBaron - 18 Apr 2006