Time for Software

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

It is time to start thinking seriously about software.  ARNE will be 
delivered this month.  MICHAEL probably next month.  Both GLENN and MIKE 
should make it this fall.  CHRIS and NICK should follow in a month or 
two.  I plan to order parts for SAREL, TOMII and TOMIII shortly.  Every 
time I work in the basement I end up with more working cameras.  It will 
not be long until we have piles of data.

I would like to see a couple of software teams form.  Disk 15 can serve a 
sample data for testing.  I would hope to see a Windows pipeline group, and 
a Linux pipeline group.

The list has been very quiet lately.  I hope you are all just resting up 
for the big push.

I plan to run a six camera installation.  This should allow me to take 
almost as much data as a good site.  The quantity will be similar, but the 
quality will not be as good.  Still, experience with the Mark IIIs 
indicates that the data will be useful.

It does not appear that the motivation for doing this work has changed very 
much.  It will be a very useful project.  We can do the northern hemisphere 
very well from the planned sites.  The south is a problem, but I can build 
more cameras if interested parties show up after we start producing good 
data.

OK, I am waving the flag and yelling "charge".  Andrew and Jure have both 
made pipelines work for the Disk 15 data.  We need to form up in groups and 
divide up the work.  Chris is working on the front end data taker.

I am not the one to lead this effort.  Can I get someone to step forward 
and say "I will lead the M group", I will lead the L group".  OK, I know we 
are all leaders here.  I am not asking anyone to direct others.  Rather I 
am looking for rallying points to get organized so that you can get 
together and divide up the work.

Tom Droege