2020 March 25 @ 1400UTC (NB: daylight-savings in NA, not yet in NL)
Logistics
Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
NEXT MEETING: 2020 April 29?? @ 1400 UTC
2020 May 27?
2020 Jun 24?
General Admin
General Status w.r.t. Coronavirus measures
NRAO/ALMA:
NRAO & ALMA staff working-from-home on best-efforts basis
VLA continuing to observe (NB: VLA C-config ends May 11; unclear if reconfig to B safe/possible if social distancing directives still in force at that point)
VLBA continuing to observe (NB: some lockdown conditions may affect operations in some US states (eg. CA))
ALMA telescope operations suspended; ALMA Cycle 8 Proposal Call open, but deadline delayed
ASTRON/JIVE
Staff working at home (Likely to last until at least the start of June)
CASA
Work continuing on a best-efforts basis as we figure out what pace we can manage; group meeting this week on Google Meet worked reasonably well (~20 participants)
Timescales for 5.7/6.1 release and 5.8/6.2 planning and development TBD for the next week or two, as we find our equilibrium
Connection options for this meeting in future: skpye, google meet, nrao polycom hub by phone, other?
Need plotms build instructions (George will ask Pam for details...TBD)
Unclear how to make CASAshell work (George will followup...TBD)
CASA5 build possible within casa6 repository structure (George to provide simple instructions...TBD)
Both Des and Mark have a solution that works
Need instructions for running c++ unit (google) tests in 6.1 (Work ongoing on CASA side, stay tuned...)
Current VLBI Integration branch: CAS-12325.
Will make new VLBI integration branch from new repository soon, modulo items that move out of CAS-12325 in current work (these should be satisfied in 5.7/6.1 release)
(Mark) Waiting for dust to settle on casa6 migration; new casa6 branch will likely be needed by summer.
Work plan describing how/when CASA can replace AIPS (FY2020 NRAO/DMS Program Operating Plan)
Nominal plan: When Mark's Consolidated Req doc complete (~now), formulate plan to generate corresponding VLBA readiness doc (min req, timescales, etc.), anticipating completion by ~June.
Stakeholders' deliberations for 5.8/6.2 upcoming
CASA 5.8/6.2 decoupled from ALMA/EVLA pipeline planning (though 5.7.x patches likely for them). Casa6 repo will roll over to 6.2/5.8 in April?, anticipating an October? release.
George will soon add our priority items (see below) to the CASA 5.8/6.2 Stakeholders Requirements Confluence page.
(Mark) EOP: formalize import of (DifX) correlator model, update EOP (or other, e.g., troposphere) part, and difference to obtain required delay calibration
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(As of completion of requirements doc and related, the list below will be removed from this forum)
(Des/George) PCAL (Des has ad hoc scripts, need updated prioritization from VLBA since this is not a high EVN priority; not a high priority at NRAO/VLBA in the near term