Attendees: Scott, Carol, Kartik, Andy, Dongchan, Tony, Adam, Jared, Kimberly, Al, Jim, Mark, David
1. News
- Cycle0 observing began Friday, Sept 30. On schedule!!
- Press releases Monday am
- videos available on Youtube
- ASAC meeting in CV Weds and Thurs
- If you'd like to attend the 'open' portions of the ASAC meeting, please let Al know ahead of time
1. Current Focus Items and Action Items
- Batch 2 CS assignments pending; SBs to be completed Oct 16-29
- Started on a couple Batch 2
- Training of contact scientists in SB generation; Oct 10
- 10-12:00 training for friends
- Scott will send out emails to Friends today if there were any switches between batches
- Training of staff in Cycle 0 data processing
- Data Processing workshop for PIs and others; Dec 1-2
- Cycle 1 capabilities, requirements on tools, staff training
- Materials updates for Cycle 1: (Aaron, Mark A, Jim)
- OPEN Presentations for Dec community workshop & AAS (all)
- OPEN Provide comments for updates to Primer by October 15, to Gerald (all)
- OPEN Finalize agenda for December workshop and schedule trainers. DSG/Halstead to plan computing support
- OPEN Cycle0 feedback form to all registered users (Carol; Sept 30)
- OPEN Plan for Science Web revisions for Cycle1 (Aaron, Mark A)
- OPEN (with DSG) Simdata improvements for Cycle1 (Remy, Scott)
- OPEN Lessons learned memo from the CDEs (Kartik)
- OPEN Update SimGuides<a rel="nofollow" href="https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/edit/ALMA/SimGuides?topicparent=ALMA.USG2011Sep15Agenda" title="Create this topic">?</a> and CASAGuides (Jared, Andy, Scott)- in progress
2. Task leads reports / new business
- Site, CSV (Al, staff in Chile)
- small issues with eaerly observing; data has been produced and is in the archive
- issue with one of the ES scheduling blocks
- new antennae from Europe going up today
- NRC (Gerald)
- Documentation (Jim)
- offered to help with Primer
- Helpdesk (Tony)
- working to contact PIs
- Kartik & Scott - interacting with J. Tan. Contacted him through the HD, but Kartik did not get an email response. Tony: just needs to set up an alert for department (or take ownership of ticket).
- Al put in a HD ticket for his PI, wanted to include co-Is. Tony: co-Is are getting cc's of emails.
- When PIs have a problem with the process/results, the comment is sent to the PHD.
- Carol: should not be responded to PI until a policy is in place regarding assessment complaints. Need a standard response that indicates 'thanks for feedback; we'll take this into account for Cycle 1.
- Visitors (Scott)
- Postdoc mentoring (Scott)
- Workshops, Schools, Meetings (Tony, Adam)
- Working in a conference dinner that Sienny wants - will probably be an add-on (~$75), rather than include in registration fee.
- Software meeting next week (Oct 12, 13, 14)
- Tutorials (Kartik, Carol)
- Kartik: Re - UMD CDE, sent out an email with computing setup. An announcement needs to be sent out to community. Will need to set up registration for Dec 14th workshop
- Kartik will send info to Mark Adams to go into Oct eNews
- Jan 13th or 20th as possible dates at Berkeley. (MLK Day of Jan 16)
- Dec 1st workshop; letter has gone out to PIs. Oct 15 deadline for student support requests.
- Create an email exploder for all PIs so that a reminder can be sent.
- Community Outreach and Science Web (Mark, Aaron)
- DSG liaisons (Adam, Tony)
- Live demo by Brian Glendenning at Software Development meeting
- JSG liaison (John)
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LyndeleVonSchill - 2011-10-03