2025-10-23 Meeting notes

2025-10-23 Meeting notes

 Date

Oct 23, 2025

 Participants

In person: @Greg Doppmann @Max Service @Kittrin Matthews @Rosalie McGurk @Michael Lundquist @Randy Campbell @Josh Walawender @Jim Lyke

Remote: @sherry yeh @Grant Hill @Percy Gomez @Kyle Lanclos @Carolyn Jordan

 Goals

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 Whiteboard

 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

1:00

Words from Jim

Jim

  • Happy New Fiscal Year

  • Preethi starting Monday

  • Performance reviews pushed a week

n/a

Words from John

John

  • JO on Oahu

1:06

Computer/network work complete?

All

  • MS: More warning in the future on the work?

    • Not clear that there is acknowledgement of a problem.

  • IT will be opening up visibility of the ticketing system

    • Can view things within a group (e.g. AO)

    • Will help visibility, improve duty cycle

    • Not clear when, but should be happening

  • IT proposed having a ticket for every task. Not clear how serious this is.

  • IT doesn’t monitor Slack, but posting there can help to see if others are experiencing it.

  • RM: Are they respecting timescales that the ticketing system describes?

  • Will SysAdmin move under Jacques?

    • We don’t know.

  • Jim will circle back to them in a couple weeks and try to be consistent in messaging.

  • Are we keeping track of time lost?

    • Night logs track it, but won’t track our troubleshooting effort during the day.

  • Jim has communicated that weekday work is preferred.

  • KL: Prioritizing impacts at HQ seems to be happening, rather than impacts to night ops / summit.

  • TLT has met with the SysAdmin group to express concerns

  • Hold up night log tickets as example, so we should try to close tickets. This is also how we demonstrate responsibility and honesty about reporting problems and being ok with visibility about problems.

1:40

Return to Science Reflection

All

  • Still haven't been on sky with MOSFIRE and KPF

  • So far so good with other instruments

  • Lots of laser closures (also hitting Robo-AO)

1:47

Preethi Training

All

  • KCWI training

    • Rosalie may be busy this year

  • Help from all of us please

  • JW: Train on 2 instruments? Double the opportunities to shadow people. Chance to see what is the same across instruments and what is different.

  • Next week is probably quite full for Preethi, so we’ll want people to meet with her, probably the week after.

2:01

Inst Checkouts

Randy

  • Trying to get instruments earlier

  • SAs determine science readiness

  • Hand back to summit for guider/cryo

  • Goal is to get better communications and get earlier releases

  • PG: Sometimes support techs are stretched thin (especially on weekends), will we need to think about summit staffing.

2:30

Pau!

 

Next lead: @Michael Lundquist

 Action items

 Decisions

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