Minutes from SSS Mtg 2007-Dec-04

(This text file was constructed on 2008-Jan-08 from notes taken
 at the time of the meeting in my engineering notebook.)

Attendees: D.Harland, B.Hesman, F.Owen, B.Truitt, S.Witz


Entire meeting was on topic of hardware configuration.

Frazer:

  * We will need to have preset standard configurations that
    users can select.

  * Some users do not need to see the basebands at all.
    We should hide these by default and display them only
    when someone wants to see them.

  * User interface needs to be layered.  Don't show all
    the information all at once.

  * UI needs to look simpler [than the diagrams projected during mtg].

  * We will have default spectral line modes.

Brigette:

  * Hide details until they are needed.

  * Spectral lines: user should be able to select from catalog,
    in addition to specifying directly.

  * Mousing over graphical regions (eg, individual spectral line)
    should cause information about that region to be displayed.

Frazer:

  * Let user specify spectral lines and have the system figure
    out the placement of subbands.

  * Not in favor of showing the 128MHz boundaries up front.

  * Should present user with only one frequency window at first.
    The individual baseband windows would be shown only if
    action is taken by user.

  * Consider the color-blind in UI.

  * Observatory could accept a much more primitive tool for
    hardware set up initially with expectation of more advanced
    features added over time.