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Date

Attendees

(sorry if I missed anyone)

 

Goals
  • Weekly coordination meeting to discuss and resolve management items, project communications, external contacts, etc.

Discussion items

 

Item
Who
Notes
Design documents updates

Kian-Tat Lim

Status of work in updating technical baseline documents in collection-2511. Working in 2 batches, those who are close now, and science areas more open, latter will be taken up when Jim Bosch returns from Japan.

 

FY16 Budgets
Jeff Kantor
Working to have draft amendments out this week.
Have FY16 Infrastructure draft plan, need one update to align with anticipated budget, and LCR to more front-load development and integration clusters.
Boot CampKian-Tat Lim

Debrief, results, assessment of effectiveness. Early feedback to Kian-Tat Lim is good. Frossie Economou will upload videos. Thanks to instructors and those who traveled. A number of issues fall between or across groups.

Upcoming conferencesJeff Kantor

  •  LSSTC Board Meeting 20151009 - 10, Tucson, AZ

  • National Data Service Workshop 20151019 - 21 San Diego Supercomputing Center
  • Society of Women Engineers Annual Meeting 20151022 - 24 Nashville
  • ADASS XXV 20151025 - 29 Sydney, Australia Tim Jenness, Unknown User (xiuqin), Unknown User (ciardi), Mario Juric
  • IVOA Interop 20151030 - 1101 Sydney Australia Unknown User (ciardi)
  • DPS 47 20151108-13 Washington, DC (LSST Workshop 2015112, Survey and Solar System Science)
  • Supercomputing15 20151115 - 20 Austin, TX Jason Alt, Don (maybe)
  • Gauging the Impact of Requirements for Public Access to Data Produced by NSF-funded Research 2015119-20 Arlington, VA
  • LSST observing strategy retreat 20151119-20 Tucson
  • NSF CI Facilities Workshop 20151201 - 2, Arlington, VA Donald Petravick, Mario Juric
  • NSF Status Review of LSST 20151203 - 04 Online/Tucson Jeff Kantor
  • U.S. Radio Futures Conference 20151215 - 17 Chicago
  • AAS 227 20160104 - 8 Kissimmee FL (LSST Town Hall 20150108, Hack Day 20160108, LSST at Job Fair 20160105) Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness, Unknown User (nidever), Gregory Dubois-Felsmann
  • AstroPy 2016 20160321 - 25 University of Washington Mario Juric
  • Essential Cosmology for Next Generation 20160110-16 Iberostar Tucan/Quetzal, Cancun
  • LSST Joint Technical Meeting 20160222 - 24, Santa Cruz, CA (All)
  • 2nd Annual US-Chile Education Summit 20160308 - 10, Chile
  • XLDB 2016 Conference and Workshop 201605-24 - 26 SLAC Jacek Becla
  • Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, 20160606 - 10 Carnegie Mellon University
  • SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 20160626 - 0701 Edinburgh
  • LSST 2016 Project & Science Workshop 20160815 - 19 Tucson (no need to indicate attendance now)

IMPORTANT: Need to get prior approval with publications board (not oral presentations or posters, only papers), post in Interactions Database on project.lsst.org for any outside communications/papers/presentations that have programmatic information (scope, budget, schedule of MREFC project).

MiscellaneousJeff Kantor

Donald Petravick updated Risk Register 02C.07, security risks mitigated by ISP implementation except for change of regulatory environment. Jeff Kantor will execute annual update, will contact others as necessary.

Other businessJeff Kantor 

 Action items

  • Donald Petravick examine 02C.07 risks, commit with No Change  
  • John Swinbank, Simon Krughoff query boot camp attendees at Princeton and UW for feedback on effectiveness, suggestions for improvements