Dear Colleagues,
the majority vote for our next HESS-ap vibe meeting goes to the
22 Jan 2020, 2pmtime slot. A preliminary agenda can be found at
As always you're welcome to add items that you wish to discuss also.
Last week the HESS collaboration board at an extraordinary meeting finally approved the new HESS Observation Committee (OC) (https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/HESS/Observation+Committee). The OC is formally amended by the seven Astrophysics WG conveners (without voting rights) with these being invited to participate at specific OC meetings, namely at those OC meetings that are "dedicated to and/or following up on the evaluation of observation proposals received in response of calls for HESS observations".We will discuss details during the upcoming HESS-ap vibe meeting.
Please be also reminded about the upcoming deadline (26 Jan 2020!) for proposals for HESS observations in 2020. Please see details on the HESS-OC Proposal Confluence page:HESS proposal preparations within the AWGs is strongly encouraged.
Another important point for the upcoming vibe meeting will be a discussion on the publication procedure within HESS. We have prepared a draft for the publication procedure for journal papers and for conference contributions which I will distribute to you by the end of this week at the latest. The aim is to discuss these and collect comments from your side.
All the best,Anita
On 10/01/2020 21:07, Anita Reimer wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year 2020!
News are accumulating and a pile of topics requires discussions. Please be reminded to indicate your availability for the next HESS-ap vibe-meeting at:by 10 Jan (+2 days) at the latest.
All the best,Anita
On 20/12/2019 18:36, Anita Reimer wrote:
Dear All,
this is to provide you with some bits and pieces of news on various points:
- The minutes from our previous vibe-meeting are now online: https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/HESS/Meetings+of+the+Astrophysics+Department?preview=/61611355/77595349/HESS-ap-27-11-19.docx
Please let me know if there is anything important missing.
- As discussed during the last vibe-meeting we're aiming for a F2F-meeting of all HESS-ap conveners to take place back-to-back to the (yearly) OC-meeting at Landessternwarte Heidelberg. The dates for this meeting are not yet fixed, the aim is around mid to end February 2020. I'll keep you posted on the dates, etc.
- Confluence pages: Heike kindly put together some instructions of how to deal with incorporating the old confluence pages into the new structure. Whether confluence pages are moved or copied can be decided on a case by case basis, and should be decided by the corresponding WG conveners and/or task leads. Heike advises to move (rather than to copy) the old confluence page. The How-To-Do instructions including some more details from Heike are attached to this email. When moving confluence pages, may I ask you to consider to
If you encounter any problems, please contact Heike ( heike.prokoph(at)desy.de ) for support.
- check all confluence pages concerning updates, outdated or redundant content, etc. and modify accordingly
- follow the "Confluence Rules" https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/HESS/Confluence+Introduction+for+Stressed-out+Physicists#ConfluenceIntroductionforStressed-outPhysicists-Confluencerules
- use a sensible confluence page naming scheme
- MWL board: We need to move forward with setting up the MWL board. As discussed earlier all the seven AWG conveners, Stefan W. and myself shall be members of the MWL board. This board shall be enlarged by further HESS-members as needed (to be discussed at the constituting or later MWL board meetings). We plan the formal constitution of the MWL board to take place early next year (possibly as part of a HESS-ap meeting). I will set up a corresponding confluence page for the MWL board, that then further needs to be maintained by the chair (to be discussed) of the MWL board.
- Given that the planned F2F-meeting unlikely takes place before February I'd like to call for the next HESS-ap vibe-meeting sometime mid to end of January 2020. Please indicate your availability for this vibe-meeting at the following poll:
https://framadate.uibk.ac.at/studs.php?sondage=6mamjmj5s9uvpj1x
by 10 Jan at the latest.
Finally, let me take the opportunity to thank you all for your supporting and committing help in the restructuring phase of HESS. Quite some work is still ahead of us, but I am confident that a "steady-state phase" is in reach, hopefully in the early parts of next year.
Wish you all pleasant winter Holidays, and a prosperous New Year 2020!
All the best,
Anita