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1:02

Words from Randy

Randy

  • Morale lunch on Au3 Aug 3 (calendar invite coming)

  • Jospeh Rounseville Joseph Rounsaville will be coming to next meeting to talk about UNO

    • He is collecting instrument taslkstasks

    • Come with ideas, he knows about our Confluence page

    • If we need more resources/support we can discuss

    • Trying to get things done by September

    • Then transition period starts, operating as if we’re in UNO, but with people on summit

  • Director Search

    • Randy is on search committee

    • There are half a dozen or so reasonable candidates so far

    • Soft deadline is Aug 1

    • Committee will do interviews and provide board with a short list

    • Board will take it from there

    • Two committee members are on board, so there is overlap

    • Short list to board by November board meeting

    • Process is not blind

    • Diverse pool is a goal

    • Looking for technical, scientific, and administrative backgrounds/qualities

  • TS Calvin fallout

    • AC was left off in domes, so humidities got high in domes

    • Test instruments to see if there are issues

    • Laser return last night was low, may be condensation on exit window

  • Jeff Huber reported comms failed during storm

    • Text message did not go out

    • Distribution method no longer supported

    • Jim: was AC problem human error or procedure? Not sure

  • Keck II primary mirror issue

    • Secondary mirror girdle servicing was deferred to get additional supplies

    • Should now happen at end of August during SegEx time

1:19

Remote Ops Layout

Carolyn

  • Sent around top 3 layouts from OAs and SAs voting

  • OAs want a consistent set of features, they don’t care about SA and observers

  • Josh: videoconferencing mics are a challenging issue due to cord lengths

  • Josh: what other uses do we want to plan?

    • Meetings during the day? (informal meetings don’t constrain layouts)

    • Intern desks (not important)

  • Randy: events for donors and tours are another use

  • Randy: during UNO, OAs will be in there more often during the day. RO is more of the OA domain.

  • No plans to upgrade observer stations?

    • Carolyn: Jeff C is testing a new observer station

1:48

DSI NIRES Implementation

Michael

  • Got OB templates in place

  • Have NIRES scripts converted to Translator

  • Using mock KTL system to check for errors

  • Next steps

    • Test translator implementation with real instrument

    • Then test with dome lamps and telescope

    • Then test on sky

  • Randy: who is doing what on DSI right now?

    • Jeff is PM, Tyler and Max have hours

    • JO rarely site in on technical minutia

    • Michael and Chien-Hsiu are SAs working on DDOI on NIRES

    • Josh on KPF, but not NIRES

  • Guiding handshake is not testable during the day, would just test dither scripts without waiting for guiding

  • Jim: can inject a fake star in magiq guiding stream

  • Randy: will instrument scripts be available on any instrument xterm?

    • Tyler: will run on a DSI server

2:07

Pau!

  • Need lead for Aug 3 meeting:

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