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Participants
Carlos Alvarez Randy Campbell Max Service Jim Lyke Josh Walawender Percy Gomez Carolyn Jordan Greg Doppmann John O'Meara Kyle Lanclos Michael Lundquist sherry yeh Rosalie McGurk Marc Kassis Grant Hill
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01:00 | Words from Randy | Randy | 01:10
| Words from John | John | Randy 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 Plan to improve Zoom/videoconferencing hardware at summit and in JNCR
Carolyn: better microphones in JNCR and summit please 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
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
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01:15 | Words from John | John | |
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? 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?
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1:32 | November SSC and NIKUG Instrument reports preperations | Randy | Flex work policy for SA’sprep | 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 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? Process: slack channel worked well, will create another one.
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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.
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2:01 | | Jim | |
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.
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2:04 | Team Keck | Greg / Randy | |
2:06 | Pau! | | |
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