[02:42] *** quaid left irc: Ping timeout: 252 seconds [04:59] *** quaid joined #setiquest. [04:59] *** quaid left irc: Changing host [04:59] *** quaid joined #setiquest. [08:20] *** Turingi joined #setiquest. [18:44] *** sigblips joined #setiquest. [18:50] *** jrseti_ joined #setiquest. [18:54] *** lnigra joined #setiquest. [19:00] Hello All. Time to start the meeting. [19:00] ok [19:00] http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2013-01-08 [19:00] Greetings Earthlings. Welcome to 2013. [19:00] Sigblips: I did email Ariel asking her to remove the setiquest message from her site. She is working on it. [19:01] Great, that question was one of my items for today. [19:01] I think she doesn't have full control of her site - maybe someone else has to do it. [19:02] I think that person might be upstairs. [19:02] I have no idea [19:02] 2) The setiQuest forum reaches > 9000 registered users. [19:02] 3) Does Gerry Harp really hate the film “The Day the Earth Stood Still" ??? http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201301/profilesjan2013.cfm [19:03] 4) Scheduled AWS network outage for Jan 10 2013. We can avoid the outage if we migrate to new instances but this isn't worth the effort. Best to baten down the hatches and weather the storm. [19:03] 5) I wrote up a "setiQuest 2012 in review" article but decided against publishing it since it wasn't that positive and it. wouldn't of helped the project. [19:03] 6) What does 2013 have in store for setiQuest and the SETI Institute? What can we expect? What plans are on the horizon? [19:03] That's it for me for today. [19:04] Ready for SETILive update? [19:04] yes [19:04] Yup. [19:05] Ok, we've pretty much defined the transition for me away from full time SETILive... [19:05] I'm working up a task list and github tickets to define what needs to be done before we get into maintenance mode... [19:06] That should happen by March... [19:06] One task will be documentation so zooniverse and possibly SETI Institute can do what needs to be done when necessary... [19:07] An open API is also one of the tasks - full access to the database except for user info and individual signal markings. [19:07] The site does seem to be responsive. But I have not been tracking the followups. We have been observing at 6667MHz lately, not that much RFI [19:08] The latter is reserved at least for a while pending publication. [19:08] You are going to publish something about the individual signal markings? [19:09] We've had a total of about 700 followup requests since the revised site went live. [19:09] I've gotten 2 followups. [19:09] Yes, we hope to publish something on visual identification of signals on the waterfalls using the simulated data as well as actual RFI. [19:10] sigblips - congratz on the followups. [19:10] Another task on the list is to eliminate describe signal choices when doing live data... [19:11] *** dk3232 joined #setiquest. [19:11] One was actually a really good single beam signal. I need to track down what happened to it. [19:11] helllo [19:11] dk3232: hello [19:11] i am on my new computer finally [19:11] so I can do SETI quest work [19:12] To wrap up the SETILive update... [19:12] Hello dk3232. You can read what you've missed so far here http://irc.sigblips.com/setiQuest/2013/setiquest.01-08-2013.log [19:13] As far as the future goes, SETI Institute seems pretty committed to keeping it going, and even improving it with mobile access and other things. [19:14] is lnigra a SETI employee or an opensource person? [19:14] Of course that's contingent on funding, but it isn't much that's needed. [19:14] Lou works for the Zooniverse. [19:15] I'm a zooniverse employee, the scientist responsible for SETILive. [19:15] SETI Institute is effectively zooniverse's (my) customer as it were. [19:15] i see [19:15] Speaking of open source... [19:17] There's talk of doing something along those lines for SETILive. Not exactly sure how it would work yet, though. [19:18] It does seem to be a strong possibility that the data will be openly available, maybe even live data, but followups would still be only via SETILive. [19:18] cool [19:18] That's all I've got. [19:18] jr_seti: now that I got my computer I am ready to code [19:18] Any questions? [19:19] Lou: Thanks for the update [19:19] Lou: What are you going to be working on next at the Zooniverse? [19:19] One more thing... [19:20] As I've said before, I plan to stay involved on the site as moderator. [19:21] sigblips - I won't be working directly with zooniverse any longer, but I'll be working right down the hall from them. [19:23] The Alder Planetarium has made quite a name for itself, being just a Planetarium I mean. Impressive. [19:23] Thanks. I'll be working on another pretty cool citizen science-y project... [19:24] I look forward to hearing about. [19:24] about it. [19:24] Far Horizons - Students and volunteers doing High Altitude Balloon and rocketry projects. I'll be the Engineer for the program. [19:25] Sounds fun. [19:25] Awesome! [19:26] yeah, it involves rockets. Can't be bad - even tiny ones, :-) [19:27] Anything else, Lou? [19:27] Nope, bring on item 2 [19:27] 2) The setiQuest forum reaches > 9000 registered users. [19:27] Has it been growing a lot recently? Or has it been steadily growing? [19:28] The growth has speed up recently. I think we were about 4000 one year ago. [19:28] interesting [19:29] Not many people are talking though. [19:31] There are 3 times as many registered users as there are comments in the forum. Hmmmm. [19:31] Jill's been discussing a bit with Dave [19:31] http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/genetic-programming-genetic-algorithms-seti-signal-processing#comment-3709 [19:32] That's a nice thread. We need more like that one and the Voyager thread. [19:32] yes [19:32] 3) Does Gerry Harp really hate the film “The Day the Earth Stood Still" ??? [19:32] I think he is just being dramatic! [19:33] 4) Scheduled AWS network outage for Jan 10 2013. We can avoid the outage if we migrate to new instances but this isn't worth the effort. Best to baten down the hatches and weather the storm. [19:34] How long is the outage? [19:34] They say 4 hours. Could be more. Could be less. [19:34] We should't worry about it [19:35] 5) I wrote up a "setiQuest 2012 in review" article but decided against publishing it since it wasn't that positive and it. wouldn't of helped the project. [19:35] Yup. Just need to check that everything is operation afterwards. No rebooting should be involved but you never know. [19:36] What are your thoughts? The project needs to stay positive but we also shouldn't pretend last year was a good year for the project. It's been tough. [19:37] Maybe you could spin the article to it is helpful critisizm? [19:37] I will try. [19:38] it wasn't really bad either,it wasn't really anything [19:38] just a false start that's all [19:38] OK [19:38] Give it a try [19:38] 6) What does 2013 have in store for setiQuest and the SETI Institute? What can we expect? What plans are on the horizon? [19:39] That is a good question! [19:39] I think SETILive and its transition, whatever that will be, will be a main topic for the first half of the year [19:40] i plan to work on some open source project's... now that I can [19:40] Can we expect the setiquest.org machine (forum & wiki) to remain operational? Can we expect the SETI Live machines operational is also a good question. [19:40] The main thing for SETILive for SETIQuest is getting the compamp data available by API as well as the waterfall data we have. [19:41] jr_seti: hey i got a question for you [19:41] I'm thinking about the expenses of doing so. [19:41] yes, setiquest.org will remain active, as far as I know now [19:42] do you run SonATA in VMplayer or do you have a linux box [19:42] dk3232: Yes I do have SonATA tat works in a VMPlayer. But I have other ideas for projects [19:42] If you are interested. [19:43] yes I am interested [19:43] what are they [19:43] 1: [19:44] Use Google Sketchup to clean up the 3D model of the ATA antenna [19:44] See http://setiquest.org/wiki/index.php/Project_Ideas and http://setiquest.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Open_Source_Projects [19:45] i thought we were going to use Blender [19:46] RFI periodicity tracking would that be a good project [19:46] 2: I have 2 data feeds. One gives the azimuth and elevation for all the planets,sun, moon for the next 24 hours. Also, gives the Az/El of where the ATA is pointing, if observing. I'd like a JAVAScript page that displays these positions in real time on a polar plot [19:47] For the 3D, we may use Blender. But first, the 3D model needs cleaning [19:47] ok [19:48] Which would you like to do? [19:48] both [19:48] Which first? [19:48] The second one involves some programmking [19:48] programming [19:49] That may be fun [19:49] i will do 1 first [19:49] and use unity3d to create the enviroment [19:49] correct? [19:49] OK, what is your email address? [19:50] dkunsman01@gmail.com [19:51] OK, I'll email you with details, probably tomorrow morning [19:52] Yes, once the model is good - we'll be using Unity 3D [19:53] You will find the 3D model cleanup to be challenging [19:54] Anything else? [19:55] Any SETI plans for the future that you know of? The event calendar is blank. [19:56] None that I know of yet [19:57] Sorry to be vague. [19:57] A key item for the future of setiQuest is data. We'll need to see how that unfolds. [19:58] Gerry needs convincing and that isn't easy. (: [19:58] yes, keep pushing on that [19:59] I gotta go now. The Weekly talk is starting here at SETI. Thanks all. [19:59] Thanks! Later... [20:00] Bye. See you all next week. [20:00] *** lnigra left irc: Remote host closed the connection [20:00] *** jrseti_ left irc: Remote host closed the connection [20:05] *** Turingi left irc: Read error: Connection reset by peer [20:57] *** dk3232 left irc: Ping timeout: 245 seconds [21:59] *** Turingi joined #setiquest. [21:59] *** Turingi left irc: Changing host [21:59] *** Turingi joined #setiquest. [23:08] *** sigblips left irc: Quit: sigblips [00:00] --- Wed Jan 9 2013