Minutes from target meeting held October 2 2008 in 892-2-009 These minutes are available also from: http://wwwcompass.cern.ch/compass/detector/target/Minutes/2008/ a) Ammonia target material was moved to the new CryoDiffusion LN2 storage dewar on Wednesday. b) Jaakko: the new oil free vacuum pumps developed for the semiconductor industry could be an interesting alternative to the traditional rotary pumps. For example http://www.adixen.com/roughing_pumps/general_purpose_dry_pumps_acp120-44-1-p.html c) Target modifications to the Drell-Yan and Generalized Parton Distribution programs were discussed.