Management Committee Summary 1

Management Committee Summary

• Actions• Effort at CERN• Operational Tasks• Cost Sharing and New Expenses• ZDC Collaboration• Management roles• Papers, Conferences and Author Lists• Upgrade• Dates of Upcoming Meetings

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Management Committee Summary 2

Actions/Effort at CERN/Operational Tasks/Cost Sharing

• Actions– Many achieved (OTSMOU, Monitoring PCs, Lists: mail and author, Lab Move)– Still need to sort of air-conditioning for Test Lab (Bruce?)

• Effort at CERN– Some dedicated CERN residents need to start moving over to physics– Nevertheless no immediate problem, and more students/RAs expected– Need to be more efficient about sharing out Point 1 tasks

• Operational tasks and shifts– Recent change from category I/II to class 1-3– Class 1 are ACR shifts

• This move will increase pressure on institutes to fill their quota

• Cost sharing and new expenditures– Very little recent expenditure– Backplane Tester needs may require Upgrade cost-sharing exercise to start

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Management Committee Summary 3

ZDC/Management Roles/Papers + Conferences

• ZDC (mostly) working and paid for– But they need more PPMs eventually

• Management Roles– Martin takes over from Rainer on calibration

• Thanks to Rainer, and good luck in the e/gamma group

– Still need new Documentation chief

• Paper, Conferences– Taylor already gone to CALOR2010, David going to IEEE-RealTime

• Approval process is ‘bedding-in’: still rather heavy

– Three abstracts submitted to TWEPP– Any other plans/suggestions?– Little (no) progress on PPM and Digital backup papers

• Set a deadline of end of May for new draft to be circulated

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Management Committee Summary 4

Upgrade

• As always, difficult to summarize– Though Sam made a brave attempt yesterday

• Previous discussion of Phase I ‘partitioning’ now probably redundant!– Now even more doubt about what we actually need to do

• MSU is starting to discuss funding for CMM++ development– Agreement that this is a good development– The process of ATLAS approval might take some effort!

• Reminder: next TDAQ week has much Upgrade Discussion

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Management Committee Summary 5

Reminder of Mailing Lists

• Simplification in January– All mailing lists maintained at CERN– Merge some related lists (software, calibration, cern)– New naming convention (via aliases)

• l1calo-all@cern.ch• l1calo-operation@cern.ch• l1calo-upgrade@cern.ch

• Notes on usage:– l1calo-all is ‘private’ to L1Calo– operation and upgrade include non-L1Calo members

• We haven’t yet seriously tried to use, eg:– Sharepoint– Savannah

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Management Committee Summary 6

Upcoming Meetings

• Weekly meetings continue• General meetings haven’t been happening

– Maybe we will revive as technical meetings, if things ever calm down

• Regular (approximately 1 month) Upgrade meetings• Next Joint Meetings

– CERN, week of 13th – 17th September• Will have an ‘Upgrade’ flavour• May try to combine with a larger Level-1 Upgrade meeting

– Spring 2011: QMUL or Cambridge– Summer 2011: Stockholm

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dates/locationsto be confirmed