Dear All, There is a FoNS Research Computing Committee meeting the afternoon a week today. I try to have a Physics Computing Committee meeting the week before so that we can propagate any items up to the FRCC. We traditionally meet at lunchtime so I have set up a doodle poll at: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/bY6WXWKd Please can you fill it in asap so that we can set a date - my apologies for the very short notice - I will try to give more notice next time which will be early October. I will try to book a physical room as well as being virtual - so mixed mode. Please ask the members of your research groups for items that they would like to bring to this group. I have found out that at least one member of the research community, who is a large computing user, didn't know that our committee exists. We really rely on the representatives of the research groups to make these connections. We are quite an informal group and so if a group wants more than one representative then that is fine and some already do. So please send me agenda items. The agenda items that I want to cover (in no particular order at he moment) include: - Usual update from ICT - may be also an update from Leigh on how the service desk is (hopefully) improving. - Teaching machine set up (including support for Linux in a OneDrive only universe) - ICT supported laptops. - Publishing research data - results from the recent survey and what will help physics most. - RSE support from the department. What would be best structure for physics. I have spoken to quite a few of you about this recently and there are few variations as to how this might work. - Back in the day we used to have a round up from each group -is there any point bringing this back? I suspect not but would be interested in other people's opinions. Please send suggestions for other items. Best, david