Monday 24 August 2026¶

Attendees: Simon, Rob, Gordon, Ruairidh, Paul,

Agenda (https://github.com/DAREUK/tetres/issues/44):

• Ways of working (continued) https://github.com/DAREUK/tetres/issues/37
  • Website https://tetres.readthedocs.io/
  • Co-working?
    • Could we set aside 14:00 alternative Mondays for TETREs co-working?
    • After RSEcon
  • Framapad for meeting notes, to be moved to GitHub afterwards
    • https://tetres.readthedocs.io/latest/meetings/
• Bristol Hackathon Wed 2 Sep 2026 https://github.com/DAREUK/tetres/issues/39
  • Bristol supercomputer visit
• Face-to-face meeting in Autumn?
  • Tie in with 16-18 November TRE Community Conference
  • Can get free room hire at Bayes Centre
• Deployment/site updates
  • Example data: Luis will look
    • Would others be interested in creating their "own" example dataset(s) as part of the network?
    • Not here today
  • Edinburgh:
    • Demoed Terraform for configuring Netbird
      • Can add/remove peers/tokens
      • Including GitLab CI/CD to show plan, and then subsequently run apply stage afater manual approval in GitLab CI
      • Ruairidh: will look at making it public
    • Can we write this up so its accessible to Information Governance, etc?
    • How does this compare to DIRECTOR MESH?
      • Can we have one single answer, or will TREs find one or the other more acceptable?
      • Will a TRE handover some control?
• SC26 paper submitted by Paul
• Short term plan:
  • Write up connector deployments as an ADR (GitHub PR then request reviews)
• Thinking about future PIE?
  • Embed a public member 2d/month so they attend all meetings and get to grips with some of our technical questions
  • Are the public interested in this level of detail? Or are they more concerned about whether this is secure, and it's more important for us to get the analogies correct
  • Worked well for CO-CONNECT
  • But need to have the right people, they can review our analogies