ADASS BoF?

[kborne at gmu.edu]

Some of us LSST folks (some of whom are also VO-connected) are planning 
to attend the ADASS and to participate in some kind of BoF related to 
events, follow-up observation networks, robotic telescopes, E/PO 
opportunities, etc.

Since LSST is based in Tucson, there should be critical mass for
an interesting BoF discussion.  Ideally, we would like to see a
greater cross-section of the VOEvent and HTN communities also
represented in Tucson.

- Kirk


> From: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
> Subject: Re: ADASS BoF?
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:20:19 -0700
> To: Alasdair Allan <aa at astro.ex.ac.uk>
> Cc: IVOA List VOEvent <voevent at ivoa.net>
> 
> > 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

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Dr. Kirk D. Borne
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, SSDOO Program Manager, QSS Group Inc.
and George Mason University, Associate Research Professor, College of Science
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