ADASS BoF?

[Rob Seaman]

> I don't really know how much of the core HTN audience attends  
> ADASS, they're generally more SPIE people.

The point of the exercise would be to grow the HTN or VOEvent  
community.  Autonomous observatory operations is bound to be a growth  
industry with LSST, Pan-STARRS, DES and other large time domain  
surveys looming.  The previous generation of surveys were more static  
in nature and traditional modes of observing - but also of data  
transport, processing and contingent scheduling, etc. - were  
acceptable.  A lot of the point of LSST would be missed without rich  
automated follow-up.

Perhaps Robert might comment about HTN interest?

> At $325 registration fee and $155 a night for the hotel + airfare +  
> tax and incidentals I'm probably looking at well over $2500 to  
> attend, so unless someone wants to give me a boat load of money,  
> I'm not going, I don't have budget for that...

SPIE registration was a couple hundred bucks more and the conference  
rate at the Orlando World Center was something like $150, too.  This  
is the start of the tourist season in southern AZ and this is a high- 
end resort.  Could get a room at a Comfort Inn or something for  
signifcantly less.  I think the ADASS has always been pretty good  
about waving registration when needed.

What do other folks think about a BoF cohosted by VOEvent[Net?],  
LANL, LSST, GCN, etc. and focusing on community building, networking,  
systems architecturalizing and such directed toward autonomous  
observatory modes?  Would be a good chance to roll out GCN-2...

Rob