Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:56:02 -0800
To: "Shoaee, Hamid" <hamid@slac.stanford.edu>
From: Steve Lewis <SALewis@llnl.gov>
Subject: Re: FW: Photon Controls Meeting
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Let me addressing most of the points:

By the way, Sheng and Ernest think it would be very helpful for you to start making a couple of visits to SLAC per week so that actual work could be done rather than touching base. Would that be possible.

The 'big' driver-level efforts (Acquiris DC-282, ICS-130/121, Cascade 512B) are begin done at SLAC; I am counting on Sheng, Amadeo to supervise these technically, and they are relatively self-standing for test purposes.

o. When can Stephen start work on photon tasks?
There are quite a few 'small' devices (you have the list), all of which use serial lines; Stephen can start on these immediately.  In most cases, we have 2 (or more) on hand, so one can be sent to SLAC while the other is used for hardware integration.  (I will send the first one tomorrow.)  Stephen is already helping me with EDM screens, especially the top-level ones, which are completely different for photon systems but don't need actual hardware for most of the testing.

o. Next step on the LLNL EPICS work: Next visit by Ernest?
Besides making Ernest a Participating Guest at LLNL (so he can come and go and log in to a computer, even remotely) I was thinking I should do the same for Stephen.


o. Weekly Photon progress reports
In my own weekly reports (which are all photon systems, of course) I try to combine progress at LLNL and SLAC seamlessly, but by topic, listing who contributed to each; do you want a different emphasis?  I don't get formal, written input from anyone at SLAC, so I base it phone and e-mail exchanges.  Is too weak a link?

o. update on the Steve Lewis plans/schedule -- Sheng has been working on this.
I have given exhaustive detail in 'Tasks 1'.  I have re-arranged it in 'Tasks 2' by IOC/sub-system (new being reviewed).  I was going to do a schedule as 'Tasks 3' but, it is very simple:

1. All FEE instrument work is overdue (needed for test stands)
2. FEE vacuum is due in January for integration testing
3. FEE Offset mirror motion control, popins, and vacuum due in Spring 08
4. NEH, XRT, FEH are late '08/early '09.  But no new driver-level work at all.

We had a meeting over a week ago to discuss our plans and strategy for photon controls work. I would like to have a follow up meeting to see where we are, and to make sure we are not losing momentum. As I mentioned, we have until the end of January to accomplish certain tasks and to show we are committed to this work. I would like to send a weekly report to photon managers to show our progres.