ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Goryl, P.P.)

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Manage the MAX IV Laboratory Control System as an Open Source Project

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V.H. Hardion, J.J. Jamroz, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Lindberg, A. Milán, A.G. Persson, D.P. Spruce
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
P.P. Goryl
Solaris, Kraków, Poland

Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is now deployed and used in most of the big facilities. It brings a lot of qualities that can compete with proprietary software like robustness, reliability and functionality. Arguably the most important quality that marks the DNA of FOSS is Transparency. This is the fundamental difference compared to its closed competitors and has a direct impact on how projects are managed. As users, reporters, contributors are more than welcome the project management has to have a clear strategy to promote exchange and to keep a community. The Control System teams have the chance to work on the same arena as their users and, even better, some of the users have programming skills. Unlike a fortress strategy, an open strategy may benefit from the situation to enhance the user experience. In this topic we will explain the position of the MaxIV KITS team. How “Tango install party” and “coding dojo” have been used to promote the contribution to the control system software and how our projects are structured in terms of process and tools (SARDANA, GIT… ) to make them more accessible for in house collaboration as well as from other facilities or even subcontractors.

Poster MOPPC086 [7.230 MB]

TUPPC112

GeoSynoptic Panel

840

Ł. Żytniak, C.J. Bocchetta, P.P. Goryl, P. Pamula, A.I. Wawrzyniak, M. Zając
Solaris, Kraków, Poland
V.H. Hardion, D.P. Spruce
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

Funding: Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS at Jagiellonian University ul. Gronostajowa 7/P-1.6 30-387 Kraków Poland
Solaris is a third generation Polish Synchrotron under construction at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Furthermore, National Synchrotron Radiation Center is member of the Tango Collaboration. The project is based on the 1.5 GeV storage ring being at the simultaneously built for the MAX IV project in Lund, Sweden. The Solaris project is a prime example of the benefits of use EU regional development funds and sharing of knowledge and resources for the rapid establishment of a national research infrastructure. The Solaris develops highly customizable and adaptable application called the GeoSynoptic Panel. Main goal of the GeoSynoptic Panel is to provide a graphical map of devices based on information stored in the Tango database. It is achieved by providing additional device/class properties which describe location and graphical components (such as icons and particular GUI window) related to a particular device or class . The application is expected to reduce time needed for preparation of synoptic applications for each individual (part of) machines or subsystems and to reduce effort related to debugging and change management.

Poster TUPPC112 [19.249 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPC086	Manage the MAX IV Laboratory Control System as an Open Source Project	299
	V.H. Hardion, J.J. Jamroz, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Lindberg, A. Milán, A.G. Persson, D.P. Spruce MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden P.P. Goryl Solaris, Kraków, Poland
	Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is now deployed and used in most of the big facilities. It brings a lot of qualities that can compete with proprietary software like robustness, reliability and functionality. Arguably the most important quality that marks the DNA of FOSS is Transparency. This is the fundamental difference compared to its closed competitors and has a direct impact on how projects are managed. As users, reporters, contributors are more than welcome the project management has to have a clear strategy to promote exchange and to keep a community. The Control System teams have the chance to work on the same arena as their users and, even better, some of the users have programming skills. Unlike a fortress strategy, an open strategy may benefit from the situation to enhance the user experience. In this topic we will explain the position of the MaxIV KITS team. How “Tango install party” and “coding dojo” have been used to promote the contribution to the control system software and how our projects are structured in terms of process and tools (SARDANA, GIT… ) to make them more accessible for in house collaboration as well as from other facilities or even subcontractors.
	Poster MOPPC086 [7.230 MB]

TUPPC112	GeoSynoptic Panel	840
	Ł. Żytniak, C.J. Bocchetta, P.P. Goryl, P. Pamula, A.I. Wawrzyniak, M. Zając Solaris, Kraków, Poland V.H. Hardion, D.P. Spruce MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	Funding: Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS at Jagiellonian University ul. Gronostajowa 7/P-1.6 30-387 Kraków Poland Solaris is a third generation Polish Synchrotron under construction at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Furthermore, National Synchrotron Radiation Center is member of the Tango Collaboration. The project is based on the 1.5 GeV storage ring being at the simultaneously built for the MAX IV project in Lund, Sweden. The Solaris project is a prime example of the benefits of use EU regional development funds and sharing of knowledge and resources for the rapid establishment of a national research infrastructure. The Solaris develops highly customizable and adaptable application called the GeoSynoptic Panel. Main goal of the GeoSynoptic Panel is to provide a graphical map of devices based on information stored in the Tango database. It is achieved by providing additional device/class properties which describe location and graphical components (such as icons and particular GUI window) related to a particular device or class . The application is expected to reduce time needed for preparation of synoptic applications for each individual (part of) machines or subsystems and to reduce effort related to debugging and change management.
	Poster TUPPC112 [19.249 MB]