Title: SEA/APT Short Term Collaboration Meeting.
Attendees: Jeremy Jones, Sandy Grovesnor, Anuradha Koratkar, Tony Krueger
Date: 3/2/2000

1) Who will coordinate changes to the base Prototype code,
   when the SEA team, STScI team, and 
   potentially other observatories will be making changes?

We thought that it would be best that the SEA team do this until
October 1, 2000.  They are the most capable, since they are
the most familiar with the software.  Jeremy/Sandy were going
to look into how open source software like linux do this.
What happens after October 1, 2000, if Goddard is no longer 
funding SEA type work?  I said that it might make sense for 
STScI to take over this responsibility, especially since 
STScI would have a been working/expanding the VTT/ETC's 
for 8 months by then.

2) We talking about getting an organized/prioritized list
   of changes based on the SEA evaluation.  

Jeremy said that they would put that together.

3) We talked about how we should collaborate to get a VTT out
   for June 1?

I suggested that STScI take over the VTT/ETC code and the 
Goddard folks start moving onto something new.  Jeremy said
that the code was not really set up yet to be broken off
in that manner.  There would be some code rework needed.  
This left us with two options.  One STScI take a version of 
the SEA code and start making changes independent of the
SEA team.  The other, was we could work together as one
development team till June to get the VTT out.

We decided that it was in both groups interest to work
together as one team to get the VTT out.  Here is what
was decided.

- STScI and Goddard will use keep separate code repositories 
  (Config management system).  We will email our code changes
  back and forth and it will be the reposibility of STScI and
  Goddard to keep their respective repositories up to date.

- Jeremy, Rob, Frank, and Mike will coordinate the VTT 
  technical work between him.

4) Bright Objects in the VTT?

  Mike Asbury will contact Jeremy about what he would like
to do and ask Jeremy for technical insight and help.  

5) What about the ETCs?

  We didn't feel there was a need to decide on anything
with those just yet, since the ETC delivery is 10 months
away.  I also need to work with Dick about how we want
to proceed with the ETCs before we make any decisions
with the SEA folks.

6) What will SEA folks and STScI work on in the future (new tools, etc)?

  We did not answer this question.  We decided that we would
  try and get a handle on this in the next couple of weeks.




  
   
