USG July 18 Meeting
Room 230
4-5pm
In attendance: Tony, Kimberly, Kartik, Dongchan, Andy, Jarrod, Adam, Rachel, Scott, Lyndele, Gerald, Heidi
1. Review of Pending Items:
Introduction to Andy - new Data Analyst
- Jim - responding to complaint from UBC, Remy is working on it right now, Jim is on holidays but will work on it when he returns
- Tony - nothing has happened on the helpdesk, Gerald is on triage until TBD
- lessons learned: Europe/EA needs more training for support specialists, putting together knowledgebase articles
- lots of new reports coming out for support staff to review
- Scott
- visitors - Itziar (JAO) - working with Ed Fomalont, also perhaps Crystal & Todd to learn data reduction for ALMA
- postdoc mentoring - John Tobin arriving soon but official start date Sept. 1 (not NAASC); no word on other new (non-NAASC) postdocs
2. Task leads reports
- NRC (Gerald)
- Intend to take part in SV reduction (Crystal's course)
- Documentation (Jim)
- Helpdesk (Tony)
- Visitors (Scott)
- Postdoc mentoring (Scott)
- Workshops / meeting attendance (Tony, Adam)
- AAS Speakers - 5 or 6 confirmed speakers
- Adam will pick this back up in the fall
- Tutorials (Kartik)
- O'Neal - Community Day following Tony Fisher Relationship Oct 14 or 21 in GB
- Community Outreach and Science web (Mark, Aaron)
3. New business
Will begin advertising for two new post-doc positions (via NSF) - similar to
NAASC PDs; "traveling" - will be at NRAO for limited time to train, but will travel to train others on ALMA.
- Which USG tasks should the post-docs take on?
- CDEs - ambassadors to the community
- F2F user support
- Helpdesk
- Documentation - kb vetting
- Interferometry experience
- Tony - could use splatalogue help
- Perhaps be here for a year, then move somewhere else for another year?
- Would like to have a list of 4 things that they could be doing
- Suggestions for ad wording
- Will need volunteers to serve on interview committee
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LyndeleVonSchill - 2011-07-18