Minutes from SSS Mtg 2008-Jan-08
 
Attendees: B.Butler,   D.Harland, B. Hesman,    F.Owen,
           J.Rochford, M.Rupen,   L.Sjouwerman, B.Truitt,    S.Witz


* Michael & David discussed the highlights of the week-of-work
  with the WIDAR folks.

  + SSS software will have to know more about the internals
    of the correlator than we had originally hoped.

  + We will have a weekly teleconference with Penticton
    that will focus on VCI.

    - VCI = Virtual Correlator Interface.  It is a communications
      protocol defined in XML.  NRAO software will create XML
      messages that conform to the VCI and send those messages
      to a Configuration Mapper (CM).  The CM will interpret the
      VCI messages and configure the correlator accordingly.


* David explained the SSS goals for 2008 Q1 and will send
  them to all attendees.


* The group looked briefly at the new tree-view version of the
  OPT.


* The group discussed how the scientists can help us meet our
  Q1 goal of producing a working observation script via the
  OPT.

  + David suggested that scientists try to use the OPT
    to set up a Ka band observation and make note of where
    their efforts were frustrated by the tool.
    (Remember that there is no hardware configuration
    available yet.)

  + Lorant will craft use cases for setting up some simple
    scans and give to SSS.  SSS will also receive (from Bryan?)
    scripts that match those use cases.  SSS would then be have
    targets at which to aim.

  + David will send a link to the test version of the OPT.