2020-04-21 Meeting notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

11:30

Words from Randy

Randy

• Update on Peter

• Meeting on Friday for supervisors. one of the topics will be vacation usage. Ways to balance out the build-up of vacation time

• Carlos has a question about observers in May. Randy is looking into it.

• We should be warning May observers that operations will be disrupted in May as well

• May is certainly out, June probably too for inbound observers

• Pajamas mode might be the option for 2020A

11:50

Change VNC passwords for eng accounts

Jim/Josh

• Suggestion is to change the vnc account for the engineering VNC screens to avoid the marsupial one

• the new password is “he…” ask in slack if you forget

  • Procedure: login to your engineering account on the vnc host, vncpasswd

  • notify software

  • notify instrument techs

  • notify swoc
    
    

12:00

Confluence Tutorial

Luca

• Build the 2020B Team Keck TAC page in real time

• “Plus” sign on left hand side for add a page

• “Pencil” in top right for edit

• Type “/” (slash) to see list of macros

  • Same as the “plus” with the down carat in the top edit tool bar

• When done, “Publish” button in top right will save and notify “@” mentions and watchers

  • “…” in top right gives option to “Publish without notifying watchers”

• “Star this space” in top right to add a space to your left-hand tool bar

• “Spaces” are top level. Mostly should create a page or subpage of an existing space

• Entering a Date for an action item is a due date

• GD question: How best to attach Excel spreadsheet

  • can attach as file

  • macro

• JO question: Would like mentions or action items to show up in slack

12:41

Operational modes

Randy

Continued discussion on operational methods

Projects or maintenance items that we could be doing

John encourage to think in terms of pie in the sky, and not limit ourselves to things that will be approved by the TAC

Science ideas

By Friday Apr 24, 2020