Attend/Talk at the LSST meeting on Transient Infrastructure

[Roy Williams]

If you will be at the LSST All Hands Meeting next week, please come to 
the session on 'Transient Infrastructure', it will Wednesday Aug 11 at 
2pm. We will cover several areas, as listed below.

I am especially interested in gathering volunteers to give ~15 minute 
talks on the topics below!
Please get back to me if you would like a slot!

See you on Wednesday
Roy

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*** The proposed new VOEvent protocol and open-source library, now with 
table data;

*** Positives and negatives of proposed distribution methods for rapid 
transients, such as XMPP, XML-RPC, and GCN-like protocols

*** How projects are actively using VOEvents now, including CRTS, Fermi, 
GALEX, LIGO, LOFAR,  MAXI, MOA, OGLE, PTF,  SWIFT.

*** Existing VOEvent infrastructure and synchronization

*** Nature of LSST events and distribution plans

And then a spirited discussion on these and other topics, such as:
-- Who are the communities who want LSST events?
-- How to classify events to send them to the right community?
-- What will the event consumers do with the events?
-- What do humans want, what do machines want?
-- Is rapid delivery important?
-- Is reliable delivery important?
-- Is a queryable repository important?
-- How will we make a real-time delivery network?
-- What formats and protocols could be used interoperably?