Hi everyone,
I’ve been asked to give next Tuesday a short (15 minute) summary of DM status to DESC (they’re gathering at SLAC for the semi-annual meeting). I’m supposed to focus on new developments since @jbosch gave his DM status talk at Argonne last October.
Here’s a rough outline of what I’m thinking about presenting right now. I’d be super grateful if you looked this over (especially if you’re active in DESC). Are there any things I could safely leave out? What else may be of interest to DESC? What would be of interest to DM, for the DESC members to be aware of?
Current talk outline:
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DM status
- Continuing to staff up
- Even more people shared with the DESC!
- New management structure
- Describe short-term goals
- Working groups
- Continuing to staff up
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Highlights of direct interest to DESC
- Architectural work DESC cares about
- Level 1 system design updates
- [perhaps mention AstroPy efforts? too early? not interesting to this group?]
- Science pipeline work DESC cares about
- Functionality ported over from HSC
- rhl maybe to give a demo at the end of the talk
- Middleware work DESC will care about
- butler 2.0
- Expectations for the next ~6 months
- [ideas what to specifically mention?]
- Architectural work DESC cares about
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Communications
- Improved getting started & developer manuals
- Esp. point out the technical notes
- Emphasize community.lsst.org
- Existing work on binary distributions of the stack [too early to mention this?]
- Continue with close collaboration of related DESC & DM WGs
- [what examples of this working well do we already have?]
- Improved getting started & developer manuals