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01:02

Words from Randy

Randy

• Happy fiscal year eve!

• Kevin McCann is adjusting his role. No longer management/council, will be semi-retired and lead green initiative.

  • Green Initiative details TBD …

  • Software group is now in two divisions. Science Software under John/Jeff.

  • Technical software under Jason/Kevin T.

  • No longer in charge of sysadmin, that group will report to Andrew O. until COO is on board.

  • sysadmin has been understaffed, but things are looking better for near future

  • Plan to increase bandwidth from HQ to summit: 1 G to 10 G

    • Summit to HNL up to 100 G

    • Upgrade to Spectrum WM-HQ network from 1 G to a balanced in/out line

  • Plan to improve Zoom/videoconferencing hardware at summit and in JNCR

• Carolyn: better microphones in JNCR and summit please

  • John: will reiterate request

• Carolyn: updates on COO position?

  • Randy: not sure, not on hiring panel, but in interviewing process

  • John: initial downselect to 10 candidates in phone interviews now

    • will interview 2-3 on site

• Open SA position:

  • Talk from one candidate after this meeting

  • Additional chat time after his talk

  • Panel: Jim, Greg, Randy

  • Other candidates exist as well, are doing phone interviews

  • On order of 8 candidates which are good, 3 or 4 are really good

  • Not as deep of a pool as the last cycle

01:

15

Words from John

John

• Happy with Ball Aerospace/JWST test from last week. Gratitude from various aerospace and NASA folks.

1:17

Effects of a missing segment on science

Carolyn

• Looking at time lost metrics for ACS problems, stuck actuators are biggest time lost item

• Results in 1-2 hour loss to fix problem

• Maybe we should do short troubleshooting, then kick segment out of stack and proceed with observing?

• Wants feedback on this idea.

• Could be a problem for imaging programs

• Randy: consequences for rest of mirror?

  • Paul examined this during engineering

  • No effect on other segments

• Carlos: pupil rotates in FOV on some instruments like DEIMOS, so matters where segment ends up. Don’t want it in slit. Need to control where it ends up.

• Jim: will be training and procedures for SWOC for kicking segment out

• Randy: how far off can segment be sent?

• Percy: discuss with observing team during night

• Josh: observers will want details on control and ability to ID segment (move it independently?)

• Randy: how often?

  • Carolyn: several issues in last few weeks

1:32

November SSC and NIKUG Instrument reports prep

Randy

• Nov 10 (Wed) SSC meeting contains our instrument reports

• Not sure if meeting is in person or hybrid

• 1 week later is NIKUG meeting

  • Similar reports, but shorter

• 10 instruments, AO, remote observing, metrics = ~13 presentations

• New SAs will give presentations (Rosalie = KCWI, Michael = DEIMOS, Max = some AO maybe?)

• Slides from last years meeting are in archived Slack channel

• Past 2 years, presented risk matrix which SSC and NIKUG appreciated

• Will continue using these this year

• Later in the year, same people will be working on strategic plan. Could take advantage of this and pitch ideas.

• We typically have theme each year. Ideas?

  • DSI readiness

  • 10-15 year look ahead (link to strategic plan)

  • timelines/history

• Process: slack channel worked well, will create another one.

  • Will do a practice run of talks

1:50

Flex work policy for SA’s

Randy

• All staff meeting yesterday contained intro to new policy

• Probably not a big change for this group since we already are doing observing support this way now that observers are rarely on site

• Randy would like New staff around frequently if possible.

• Max: housing prices factor in to this for some people

• John: policy is experimental, so be careful making plans

• John: when astronomers at here at HQ, SAs should make effort to be in person

• Kyle: is there a departmental stance?

  • Eng department has its own stance, independent from Keck stance, is there a departmental stance for us?

  • Randy: already been doing this to some degree, so no major changes.

2:01

Jim

• Jason Chin says he wants yo have Dwight down at HQ for a day in future is we want to meet him

2:03

KVSP

Josh

• KVSP will be by invitation only this cycle

• Get in touch with Josh if you want a scholar this year. Must have a scholar and a project in mind, not an open call.

2:04

Team Keck

Greg / Randy

• List yourself as PI, not Hilton

2:06

Pau!