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* Actions 14, 15, 20 and 21 closed during February 2020 BSC Meeting
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* Actions 5 and 22 closed during March 2020 BSC Meeting
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Summary of the meeting (28/04/2020)
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**Attendees** : Manfred Burghammer, Veijo Honkimaki, Jordi Bodera, Thomas Roth, Wout de Nolf, Jens Meyer, Matias Guijarro, Armando Solé, Andy Gotz, Laurent Claustre, Harald Reichert and Jean-Claude Biasci
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Please note that this meeting took place during the ESRF's closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic via videoconference.
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Manfred started the meeting by asking how the ESRF closure is affecting the schedule, what's the impact and plans for the reopening. Jens and Matias replied that this topic will be covered in their presentations.
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**ACTIONS**
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* *#13 Full list of available commands (cheatsheet-like) documentation* : Matias explained that he has not done any progress on this action since the confinement started. Manfred stated that finishing this documentation while working in the beamline with Bliss on real experiments would be beneficial to the effort and thus we should wait.
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Thomas asked for the latest version of the documentation available, which Matias will share. ACTION REMAINS OPEN.
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* *#19 Set up a system/place for new features/suggestions/new requirements for BLISS* : Jens explained that after discussions with the developers the plan is for users to have an entry point into Bliss per beamline (kind of a landing/home page) where it would be explained how to submit tickets for bugs in GitLab, how to join the mailing list and how to use it to request new features (which would manually added to GitLab as required). Jens still needs to work on the "landing page" of Bliss for each Beamline, therefore the ACTION REMAINS OPEN.
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* *#23 MCA Support in BLISS* : Matias explained that work on this is ongoing, however it is not yet finished. A realistic date for completion would be in June. Andy then inquired why this is taking so long and Veijo added that if the ESRF reopens 11th May it would be good to have something working around this time or shortly afterwards (end of June is considered too late). Jens added that while some basic functionalities work for MCA, further work is required (Matias explaiend that calibration, integration with certain scans and other usability features are missing). ACTION REMAINS OPEN with target date 1st June. It was agreed that work will focus on ID21 and ID26 beamilines.
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* *#24 Data Policy working well with BLISS Beamlines* : Matias explained that work is with Wout (whose microphone did not work and couldn't contribute to the meeting) and that the Data Policy is working with Bliss (excluding ICAT). Andy explained that he talked with Alejandro de Maria and that there is an issue related to matadata and DOIs. ACTION TO REMAIN open while Wout and Alejandro talk to each other about this topic.
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* *#25 BCU to update Debian 6 in ID21* : Jens explained that this was not possible while working remotely. Harald raised the issue that this is a minor action, not strategic and therefore should be removed from this meeting. ACTION REMOVED
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* *#26 Plan a session in May (classroom-like)* : Matias explained that while doing a remote session is possible, it would take more effort and likely be less effective than a face to face session. Andy pushed for a session saying that even if a remote session would not be perfect would still be better than nothing and some remote sessions have been successfully done at the ESRF (e.g. Hercules school). Veijo and Harald pointed out that newcomers won't arrive in significant numbers before June, therefore this is not a priority. ACTION TO REMAIN OPEN, it is agreed that during the next BSC meeting the need for a session in May will be reviewed and that a Mid-June session will surely take place.
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* #27 BLISS automatic deployment* : Jens explained that good progress on this has taken place. ACTION TO BE RENAMED AND REMAIN OPEN. New name is *All Bliss instances to be the same version* with target date of end of August.
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**STATUS UPDATE ON BEAMLINE CONVERSION TO BLISS FROM SPEC**
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Jens used the [presentation linked in the point two of the agenda]((uploads/5263426b87f2e0f8eeab21128a0e3b85/BLISS_Steer_28_4_2020-1.pdf)) to explain that most basic functionalities are ready, beamlines can do basic experiments, however some tests with hardware are not possible. Jens also raised the issue that any commissioning that takes place without sitting down next to the BL scientists will be slower. Harald explained that it is very unlikely that more than one person will be allowed in the control cabins, therefore even when at the ESRF (once it reopens), remote desktop, screen sharing and telephone are likely to be used. Jens confirmed that under that situation commissioning will take longer than originally planned.
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Harald requested Jens a table with status of beamlines a little bit more complete that the one shown (% completion, etc.) which Jens agreed to deliver towards the end of the following week.
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Jens said that due to the ESRF closure and lack of access to hardware and commissioning new streams of work have been started (standarising approach for monochromators, spectrometers, crystal analysers, "common continuous scans", etc.).
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Veijo suggested to Jens to talk with Nicolas Janvier (DEG-ELEU) about timing system.
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**STATUS UPDATE ON BLISS CORE DEVELOPMENT**
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[Matias' presentation](uploads/cee159c12e352fcdd6c14309cc0939ca/11-bliss-steering-committee-meeting.pdf) explained that work has been focusing mostly on bug fixes and new features. The team is working well (remote work is not having a significant impact), however lack of access to hardware/beamlines is an impediment.
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Matias explained that a new package (1.4) will be released by the end of April, MCA work is ongoing, ICAT Metadata support is also ongoing and that the Bliss team will benefit from help from scientists to define functions. It was agreed that for each beamline this will be different and it is difficult to provide more help without real data from real experiments, so this action will take place once the ESRF reopens.
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Minutes from previous meetings:
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* [10th BSC 13/03/2020](https://gitlab.esrf.fr/bliss/bliss/-/wikis/10th-BLISS-Steering-Committee-Meeting-March-2020)
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* [9th BSC 13/02/2020](https://gitlab.esrf.fr/bliss/bliss/-/wikis/9th-BLISS-Steering-Committee-Meeting-February-2020)
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