DM Leadership Team Meeting 2015-10-26

Draft amendments out this weekend (except FIU), all papers and budgets are with AURA.

Infrastructure procurement requisition waiting approval.

Donald Petravick: Soliciting use cases/users of OpenStack system. Specific OpenStack features need to be defined with each client use case. Interested in collecting feedback, but only if an attempt is made to use the infrastructure provided (e.g. OpenStack for SUI, qserv, etc.). SQuaRE is only current OpenStack user (FE - going well, giving feedback in Nebula group, need SWIFT).

Also, there are internal NCSA meetings that discuss longer term needs and determine how to satisfy (JK - DM needs input primarily via Annual Acquisition Strategy process). Also want to understand cloud initiatives in DESC, etc. (GPDF - Talk to Richard DuBois who is DESC computing coordinator).

Gregory Dubois-Felsmann would like to utilize OpenStack for "super task" development work.

• 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)
• K2 SciCon 20151102 - Santa Barbara, CA Unknown User (ciardi)
• MPS Open Data Workshop #1: Gauging the Impact of Requirements for Public Access to Data Produced by NSF-funded Research 2015119-20, Arlington, VA Mario Juric
• 47th DPS Annual Meeting (LSST Workshop 2015112, Survey and Solar System Science), 20151108-13, National Harbor, MD Mario Juric
• Supercomputing15 20151115 - 20 Austin, TX Jason Alt, Don (maybe)
• 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
• Python in Astronomy 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)
• 2^nd 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
• LSST@Europe2 conference 20160620 - 24 Belgrade, Serbia
• 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).

Reminder: Monthly report inputs due last week.