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2023-03-02 Meeting notes

2023-03-02 Meeting notes

 Date

Mar 2, 2023

 Participants

  • @Carlos Alvarez @John O'Meara @Chien-Hsiu Lee (Unlicensed) @Max Service @Jim Lyke @Josh Walawender @Randy Campbell @Kyle Lanclos @Greg Doppmann @Carolyn Jordan @Michael Lundquist @Rosalie McGurk @Maylyn Caravalho @Percy Gomez @sherry yeh

 Goals

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 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

1:03

Words from John

John

  • preparing for SSC and board meetings

  • excited about KCRM arriving

  • draft of strategic plan is released

    • comments to John

    • is draft, waiting on Board comments/endorsement

    • SSC has already endorsed science strategic plan

  • actively working on 5 year plan

  • John will be in CA next week for SSC and Board, on vacation following week

1:08

Words from Randy

Randy

  • Weather has been “quite poor”

  • Carolyn checked history and is one of the worst continuous stretches of lost time due to weather

  • Flexible work policy was distributed

    • Waiting for people planner to get released

    • Maybe that will read support schedule and populate it

    • Wed is company wide collaboration day

    • 2pm Wed for Coffee?

  • With loss of engineering time, will be rescheduling some of that.

    • Pyramid need a short amount of on sky time to verify operation

    • Maybe twilight? Issue does not show up on bench

  • About to send out draft support schedule for rest of semester

    • Send new constraints to Randy

  • FY ends at end of September, travel budget rolls over then, so contact randy about travel plans

    • KSM will be in this FY (Sept 6-7 ish) at Berkeley

    • Need SOC member from SA group

1:20

Observer’s data access portal

Chien-Hsiu

  • Real Time Ingestion GUI

  • Now hosted at IPAC, in testing phase before release

  • @Chien-Hsiu Lee (Unlicensed) link here: http://vmkoatest.ipac.caltech.edu:8092/feed/login
    (private for now, need KOA login: rtitest/pasadena)

    • Observers need KOA login accounts in advance (can not generate during night)

  • Demo of interface

  • Session will restart at 0h UT (2pm HST)

  • KOA web page has documentation on “Observers Data Access Portal”
    http://vmkoatest.ipac.caltech.edu:8000/UserGuide/odap_help.html
    (private for now, need KOA login: rtitest/pasadena)

  • Observers on telescope schedule should get KOA access, but need to have a KOA ID first.

  • Looking at providing ability for PI to add access … (still working on it)

  • Will eventually remove access to sdata disks, but still need to figure out transition time and handover criteria (~ a semester long overlap)

  • Also adding Co-Is to permitted KOA users for data

  • Access permissions same for standard KOA and real time

  • Once released, need to update instrument pages to tell PIs to grant access and add instruction to start this before taking calibration data

  • RTI is available until 0h UT

  • There is also pykoa notebooks on KOA web page to do sophisticated queries

  • Still considering adding columns to make the a full KEOLA replacement.

  • SAs should make sure they have individual KOA IDs

    • John will ask Jeff to elevate access for SAs

1:45

New people calendar

Josh

  • Josh beta tester for new people calendar

  • Calendar defaults to put us all on HQ Mon through Fri

  • Possible to use the API to create a personal calendar

  • Would it be possible to populate the fields automatically based on the support schedule? Support nights from 4pm to 11am?

  • Calendar reads from the operations schedule

  • Can the calendar support several locations

  • How do we represent compensation time for overwork?

  • How precise the information needs to be?

  • Can you include contact information?

  • One could use a set of personalized defaults

2:03

 

 

  • Proposals for 22B Team Keck proposals on Aprli 10, but Greg is going to confirm.

  • John would like to have a discussion about our thoughts on the Strateginc Plan

2:06

Identify next meeting lead

All

Greg

2:07

Pau

 

 

 Action items

 Decisions

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