Minutes Technical Climsoft Meeting at ICPAC, Friday, 30 June 2023

Date and Time

Friday, 30/06/2023 at 11:00 UTC+3

Location

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

Attendees

1. Patrick Munyoki(Climsoft Developer);
2. Samuel Machua(Climsoft Developer); and
3. Marcellin Habimana(Climsoft Coordinator).

Meeting Agenda:

1. Progress Climsoft development and addition of the data output option for Climate station system in Climsoft system;
2. Brief discussion on the Burundi work visit for the training on Climsoft and R-Instat;
3. Operation issues of Climsoft in Eswatini (EMS);
4. Operation issues of Climsoft in Zambia (ZMD);
5. Progress on training of the SMA staff at ICPAC and way forward;
6. AOB: visit Peter Muraya software development team in Kenya

Meeting actions

1. Action 1: Patrick to share the QC document he is working on for possible review and comments by Marcellin and Samuel;
2. Action 2: Patrick to list all the QC functions in R-Instat and share with Marcellin and Samuel;
3. Action 3: Marcellin to review and summarise Climsoft issues raised by users via GitHub that requires much attention and consideration for future development and enhancement of Climsoft for further discussion by the Climsoft team;
4. Action 4: Marcellin to follow up the issue bagge with ICPAC human resource for easy access of ICPAC premise by Climsoft team;
5. Action 5: Next meeting to be held on Friday, 14th July at 10:00 AM (TBC), discussions will focus on Climsoft five (5) year development roadmap, participants will review the draft document shared and bring more ideas to  update the draft document prior the next meeting.

Next Technical Meeting.

Friday, 14/07/2023