This was a NAASC workgroup that met between August 2010 and August 2012, when it was deprecated as part of the NAASC re-organization. Most tasks map to the new NAASCObserving Support Team. Any material formerly associated with JSG that has not been migrated to the OST wiki is given below, as well as the original group composition and task assignments (for posterity).
Group Lead: J. Hibbard
Group Members: H. Liszt, E. Fomalont, T. Hunter, N. Marcelino, S. Corder, K. Sheth (ex officio: A. Wootten, C. Brogan), NAASC staff on turno
Group Meetings (NO MORE): Thursdays, 10:00-11:00pm ET, 2nd Thursdays in CV-ER331; 4th &5th Thursdays in CV-ER209 (right before Tiger Team telecon; connection info below)
Tasks Assigned to this group (task lead)
Software testing/Integrated tests (John Hibbard)
Software tracking and priorities
NA Sub-System Scientists
CASA (C. Brogan/Todd Hunter)
Pipeline (Ed Fomalont (w/BVV))
Helpdesk (John Hibbard)
User Software Cognizant Leads
OT (Harvey Liszt)
Pipeline (Ed Fomalont/Remy Indebetouw)
Phase 1 Manager (Harvey Liszt)
Project Tracker (Stuartt Corder)
Proposal Review Support (John Hibbard)
JAO CfP development
Support in Chile
Technical Secretaries & Assessments
"Phase 2 Group" for generating Phase II materials
QuickCycle1OTNotes.pdf: Harvey's presentation on Cycle 1 OT notes (given at USG meeting May31)
Support in Chile (CSV/AoD) (Kartik Sheth / Stuartt Corder)
Action on P2G: Updating "Compact" SBs (mostly ampcal, but also velocity ref. frame)
Action on JH:Write up plan for evolution of Tiger Team effort to as follows: Tiger Team -> reduction of test datasets -> reduction scripts for SV data -> Staff training on SV data -> SV guides for users -> evaluate pipeline performance on SV data -> pipeline hueristics
RESULT: Yes, we have one at CDL at ste-its.cv.nrao.edu. Dan Klopp (dklopp@nrao.edu) can install new software on it, or tell you what software is installed. Dan says: "It has not been updated since it was installed in June. It is in sync with the version used in Chile, RedHat 5.3 and ALMA-7.1.1."
UPDATE: Feb 10: Todd looked into availability of ACS (for running ObservingScriptSimulator) on this machine as well as nash, and put the results on ALMATigerTeamMtg2011Feb24
ACTION on John: Have SciOpsIPTsetup a proper test of Technical Assessment process (i.e., using semi-real observing projects), so that forms can be better tailored
ACTION on Harvey:Produce plan for improvement of Technical Assessment form produced by OT (plan=identify purpose, participants, timeline, and product)
DUE: after Harvey returns from Edinburgh.
RESULT: Collective opinion of OT developers is that there is no point in updating TA form until a real test of the TA process is conducted (see JAOsupportMinutes2010Aug23 and AI immediately above)
ACTION on Harvey:Find out from OT group when we can update description of OT templates
RESULTS: Harvey found out the current auto-deploy version of the OT can be used to update the templates, and he did this for all of them by weeks end. CLOSED 8/6/2010
ACTION on John:Set up weekly meeting
RESULT: I have reserved CV-ER331 on Mondays from 2-3pm each week CLOSED 8/6/2010 (subsequently changed to Thursdays before Tiger Team; subsequently changed to 2nd & 4th Thursdays)