When and where

Meeting took place June 9, 11 am -- 2 pm and 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Present: Artur, Daniel Burgarth, Piotr, Alastair, Avinash and Sonia

Btw, there is some kind of biochemical product called "Quantikine". I think the overlap is sufficiently low, what do you think? Burgarth 22:56, 12 Jun 2005 (BST)

I should think so - Sonia.

Topics discussed

Content

Main page

• Description of aims and objectives of Quantiki: Avinash to prepare draft
• Brief instruction how to use Quantiki: Alastair to modify existing wikipedia tutorials as necessary

Part I: Tutorials

• Wikinize existing tutorials on CQC website (Avinash, other volunteers?)
• Some work already started, see Basic concepts in quantum computation

Part II: Handbook

1. Artur to prepare a basis outline. 2. Contact several people to invite them to make initial contributions to the handbook.

List of proposed contributors and person responsible for contacting them:

1. Daniel Gottesmann - Artur
2. Dave Bacon - Artur
3. Mike Nielsen - Artur
4. Alexi Gilchrist - ?
5. Jarek Miszczak - Piotr
6. Reinhard Werner - Artur
7. Charles Bennett - Artur
8. Alexi Kitaev - Artur
9. Simon Benjamin - Sonia (done but no response received yet)

Possible industrial contributors:

1. Dave Williams (Hitachi) - Sonia
2. Andrew Shields (Toshiba) - Sonia

Part III: Open Problems

Artur to ask Werner if we can use his list at http://www.imaph.tu-bs.de/qi/problems/problems.html Ideal case: convince him to wikinize the webpage, upload it on quantiki and maintain the quantiki version, possibly replacing the original website with a link to the quantiki page.

Part IV: Resources for the Community

proposed content for this section includes

Books / book reviews

Discussions of interesting papers

Useful software for researchers in QIS

• quantum simulators: Piotr
• circuit drawing software
• conversion software latex->wiki, html->wiki
• how about more general tools?

Overview of groups in QIS

Companies in Quantum Information Technology

Sonia to contact industrial collaborators after a suitable delay to get quantiki started.

Who is Who in Quantum Information

No action now but consider adding at later time.

Links to quantum blogs

See wikipedia http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page and related projects

Part V: News and Events

Summer schools and conferences, other meetings

PhD and postdoc positions

Design

The most pressing design issue is a suitable logo. Agreed to have CMI sponsor a logo competition awarding \pounds 100 for winning entry. Sonia and Daniel B. to handle advertising as soon as the basic structure and some content is in place.

Technical issues

Hardware

Decided that for the initial period (1st year) it should be sufficient to run quantiki from our existing webserver but Alastair will monitor the traffic to the site and if necessary we will purchase a dedicated server.

Security

Decided that security should not be a major problem as long as the system is running on a dedicated server that

• is not used to store other important data and
• quantiki content is backed up regularly

Backup

Several suggestions were discussed including

1. using the university/DAMTP backup system
2. setting up an "asynchronous" hard disk mirror site in Poland (Piotr)
3. regular backup on DVD / rev drive / tape

Update:

Alastair suggests that we back-up the content of quantiki using the DAMTP system. Personally, I think the current limit of 100Mb is problematic but I had another informal chat with one of the computer officers yesterday, who told me that they are in the process of upgrading their backup system and the 100Mb restriction would be removed soon. Thus, DAMTP backup may be viable after all although daily backups on DVD, rev disk or tape may still be preferable.

Any opinions out there?

Hi, I am a new entrant in the field of Quantum Information at Universite de Montreal. I have done server administration on linux and do let me know if some help is needed in hosting and other stuff, but no programming, I am really bad at that. My id is: prashant@iro.umontreal.ca

Management

1. "Inner Circle" (people who have root accounts on cam.qubit.org)
2. "Outer Circle" (people who feel responsible for the content, and possibly have wiki administrator rights)
3. People we can ask to help

Publicity, Advertising etc

1. Integration with Wikipedia
2. Integration into cam.qubit.org
3. Individual domain? www.quantiki.org
4. Advertising

Legal issues

1. Relationship with Cambridge Computing Service
2. Content license (GNU Free Document License? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#TOCFDL)
3. Limited responsibility of the University
   1. Can we learn from similar projects?
4. Submission of copyright protected material