[asac] URGENT! ASAC face-to-fae meeting planning

[Doug Johnstone]

Al,

Just to be clear, the option for meeting at the end of August/start of 
September would be ESO. Correct?

	Doug


On 17-Jul-07, at 11:10 AM, Al Wootten wrote:

>
>  Folks,
>
>  As mentioned in the Wednesday telecon, the ALMA Board has charges to 
> which
>  it would like the ASAC to respond in a presentation at its 30-31 
> October
>  meeting in Santiago. Such a schedule requires rapid organization, by 
> the
>  project scientists to provide you with supplementary information, and 
> on
>  your part, to ready a response.  Activities in September already, for
>  example the Project-wide external review 10-12 September, and the
>  Community Day in Garching on 3 September and following workshop, limit
>  options.  I have attempted to put some of the remaining options on a 
> wiki
>  at:
>  https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/FtfDates
>  Please visit this at your earliest opportunity to indicate your
>  availability.  The Board will need to concur with your decision on 
> when to
>  meet at its telecon on 26 July.  The next ASAC telecon will occur on 1
>  August.
>
>  I note that the ANASAC will be meeting face-to-face on 17 August and 
> the ESO
>  Community day will occur on 3 September; I'm uncertain on the EASAC
>  schedule.  The ASAC members attending these meetings could consider
>  addressing the charges at those meetings, with a general meeting to 
> mold
>  the response occurring via telecon on a more convenient schedule; it 
> is
>  not required that the ASAC meet face-to-face.  There will be a visit 
> to
>  the site after the external review for reviewers; it may be possible 
> to
>  include ASAC members who wish to visit the site if the meeting were 
> held
>  in Chile 15-16 September.
>
>  In a nutshell (formal document not yet received) the Charges will be:
>  1- Software status for early science. review recommendations of recent
>  software review and schedule
>
>  2- Revisit charge from Apr2007 on correlator requirements. Focus on 
> Early
>  science, which modes enable majority of science? What other 
> capabilities
>  are important?
>
>  3- Review calibration plan in conjunction with AIV and CSV activities.
>
>  Clear skies,
>  Al
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