NRAO Applications Users Group Meeting - PRELIMINARY AGENDA Date: 2007-06-27 (Wednesday) Time: 1300 MDT (1500 EDT) Video Hub: SOC-conf Rooms: SOC317/CV-ER311 Phone-in: (505) 835-7940 ******************************************************************* Agenda: Send items for inclusion to smyers 1. NAUG News o NAUG testing machines Joe needs a list of machines that NAUGers use for testing so that rpm updates can be focused on these. 2. CASA Status Report o CASA beyond the Beta (Joe) o The CASA Memos page is alive! http://casa.nrao.edu/CASAMemo.shtml o Status of Mac distribution? Other platforms? There is some Fedora Core 6 support now. 3. ALMA o ALMA Leads meeting issues? (Joe) 4. EVLA o any issues? 5. Main Event - Presentations and Discussion Items *************************************************************** - Alpha patch 1 status Testing progress and key items. See beta planning page: https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/Software/BetaPlanning - Testing experiences A number of people are testing in CV and at the AOC this week, including some novices. Testers should be prepared go give brief reports. You can find my testing log under the NAUG testlogs page at: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~smyers/naug/testlogs/2007-06-26-smyers.txt - Data selection Sanjay has updated his MSSelection writeup: https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/Software/MSSelection and posted it as a CASA memo: http://casa.nrao.edu/Memos/msselection/index.html This is being propagated through the tasks. - Documentation (Steve,Ed): The latest version of the cookbook is available on the CASA and NAUG pages, or directly at: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~smyers/naug/doc/cookbook/casa_cookbook.pdf This is being updated daily during this testing week! Note that the inline help is becoming out of date as the tasks change under us. When things stabilize, Ed will dig in and fix it. *************************************************************** Future Topics o suggestions welcome 6. CASA Development Targets and Schedule - See project office page: http://projectoffice.aips2.nrao.edu and the CASA Wiki https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/Software/CASA 7. Upcoming meetings and deadlines: o 2007 June 15? CASA Alpha patch 1. NAUG testing starts. o 2007 June 18-21 NRAO 50th Anniversary Symposium (CV) o 2007 June 22-24 Meeting "Transformational Science with ALMA: Through Disks to Stars and Planets" (CV) o 2007 July 9??? Debra and Joes Excellent Garching Adventure o 2007 Aug 15? CASA Alpha patch 2 o 2007 Sep 30 CASA Beta Release! o 2007 Oct 1 Earth sold by David Bowie The agendas for past NAUG meetings are archived at: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~smyers/naug/agenda/ The minutes for past NAUG meetings are archived at: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~smyers/naug/minutes/