Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
2021 Jan 20 @ 1500 UTC (a week earlier than nominal)
2021 Feb 24?
General Admin
General Status w.r.t. Coronavirus measures
NRAO/ALMA:
NRAO in North America will continue to work@home for foreseeable future (well into 2021). Infections rates increasing across US; NM now worse than ever.
ALMA progressing with array restart plans, expected to take many months. Power to be restored to the high site Dec 10. Resume science observing in March 2021?
ASTRON/JIVE
Science/computing staff continuing work-at-home for now
CASA Release Schedule
CASA 5.7/6.1: Has been released (2020 Aug 20). Patch releases pending:
CASA 6.1.1 for ALMA PL being exercised; working on a repeatability issue
CASA 6.1.2/5.7.2 w/ polcal and tec fixes (VLASS, ALMA) nearly ready.
(George) TBD: Complete re-numbering to better align with prioritization exercise from May 2020 (Still thought necessary?)
(George, Justin) TBD: Need to forward Requirements Doc and prioritization to Jen Donovan-Meyer, as input to Stakeholder process for CASA 5.9/6.3. (see below)