Notes
- AMCL
- In Tucson January 16,17, TSS will be on the agenda.
- System Engineering also.
- Need highlights from DM as well (first week of Jan).
- Action on Wil O'Mullane , John Swinbank , Leanne Guy .
- AAS
- Table at career day
- SE commissioning hires
- DM Tutorial
- Colin Slater working on documentation this week.
- Safety in Chile: need to identify lead (Chuck is now NCOA safety officer).
- Admin search
- Six candidates.
- Offer needs to be sent to top candidate; some internal confusion about getting this done.
- May be rebalancing tasks internally; there will not be a separate DM admin.
- Networks
- Cost of networks $750k per year during Operations
- Could also use ESNET (which is DOE) which costs less in Ops but up 850K up front (OSCAR covers the rest).
- DOE can not cover this as construction - options need to be discussed but looks like this should all go on MREFC. Would like to have decision by end of year.
- Identity management review early next year
- Needs a member from each subsystem.
- Need to nominate somebody from DM.
- Two options for reducing base DAC & infrastructure cost; aiming to avoid a budget overrun. Savings in the range $1-1.5M. Jeff Kantor is exploring the lower impact option; should have this in hand by the end of the holidays.
- Telescope & Site Software
- Andy Clements interim team lead pending availability of Kevin Robison.
- Planning for AuxTel pointing and on sky.
- New epics in new Jira project (TSS team under DM)
- Connecting that to new WBSs (9 not 30+) in P6.
- ITRFC-18
- Accessing remote visualization tools from the base.
- Apparently proposing both fastx and VNC as standards for this.
- Changing applications to be web-based and not require these technologies is regarded as not viable.
- Wil O'Mullane , Leanne Guy , John Swinbank — provide DM highlights for AMCL
- Wil O'Mullane, Leanne Guy , John Swinbank — nominate DM rep to identity management review.
Test Plans due in the next 45 days
- LDM-503-08b: Unknown User (mbutler) working on comments; should be done.
- LDM-503-08: Unknown User (mbutler) starting working on this today.
- LDM-503-09a: John Swinbank & Unknown User (gcomoretto) iterating on document generation.
Change requests of interest to DM
- LSE-130 coming by the end of the year.
- Middleware long range plan coming in January; update from Fritz this week.
- Wil O'Mullane Flying Thursday night; off Dec 21 – Jan 4; AAS Jan 5–9, PST Jan 10, 11.
- John Swinbank Off 24 Dec through 8 Jan.
- No meeting 24 December, 31 December.
- Next meeting is Monday 7 January.
- Best dates seem to be April 9 through 11.
- Seems likely that there will be a joint IVOA/Astropy hackathon on improving access to IVOA services.
