=====  GMVA tech group Agenda, February 8th, 2016 (draft) =====
  - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Colomer, Vicente)**
  - **GMVA Technical Group (GTG) constitution**
    * overview of the GMVA. Purpose/mission of the GMVA  Technical Group (Alef)
    * discuss and agree on  GTG statutes,  meeting cadence etc. (all GMVA)
    * appoint the GTG chair 
  - **GMVA observations & operations**
    * Overview of observation preparation and operations e.g. pre-checks, DBBC2 news, FS news etc. (Bach)
    * Overview support infrastructure,: FTP servers, web pages, mailing lists etc. (Rottmann)
    * Discussion session (all)
       * standardization of operational procedure
       * fringe check procedure
       * DBBC2 PFB mode, PFB firmware version
       * FS schedule generation for PFB modes
       * log file contents
       * station session logs
       * additional topics
  - **GMVA calibration**
    * Station reports on the current amplitude calibration strategy (every GMVA station 5-10 min)
    * Discussion session (all)
       * necessary steps to improve the calibration quality
       * Tsys extraction in real-time
       * opacity issues
       * antab file generation
       * calibration quality control at the correlator
       * additional topics
  - ** ALMA and GMVA ** 
    * Overview of the current state, ALMA commissioning and GMVA-ALMA tests (Rottmann, Alef)
    * Discussion session (all)
       * implications on GMVA operations
       * additional topics
  - **AOB / closing remarks**