Unfiltered -- notes from today's post mortem
Mark Hereld
hereld at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Aug 30 16:43:37 CDT 1999
>From: Mark Hereld <hereld at mcs.anl.gov>
>Subject: Fwd: Prelude to a Post Mortem
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>>From: Mark Hereld <hereld at mcs.anl.gov>
>>Subject: Prelude to a Post Mortem
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>>We're due for a post mortem of the Uky Chautauqua momentarily... 1 PM to
>>3 PM CDT.
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>>Think about the following questions and see what you can come up with.
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>>What did we do right? =====================================
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>>() highly effective overall
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>>() usually we had good communications
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>>() particularly good use of backchannel to queue remote questions
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>>() good use of backchannel to steer and correct dPPT problems
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>() also, works best using a seperate server for dppt
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>>Where did we have problems? ===============================
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>>() router breakage
>> - diagnosis time
>> - work-around solution
>> - time-to-fix
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>() more bw in tests, to stress system before the chautauqua
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>>() nestor audio breakage
>> - power outage at anl
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> nothing can be done about this..
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>> - audio (rat) funky state
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> nestor wasn't using the std ag stuff -- used sdr
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>> - telecon operator puts nestor on hold!
>> - patches to echo cancel hdwr not in place
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> bu needs phone patch to the genter ready
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>> - potential cover w/ question from ncsa (melanie) bobbled
>> * argonne could hear melanie trying to break in w/ question
>> * uky had argonne and ncsa muted
>> * uky not looking at mud to see solutions
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> -- russ says that local mc got the song going more or
> less right away
> and russ didn't have time to change the direction
> of the train
> - communication to mc was problem...
> - mc needs to be in contact w/ node operations
> * briefing -- train the mc to pay attention
> * somebody up near the mc w/ a headset to whisper stuff
> - jennifer and margaret will dump a document describing tech comm
> skills
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>>() more screen area definitely better
>> - not ideal to have one screen split off and dedicated to dPPT
>> - although it was better than only one screen
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> - comments said too many moving windows... confusing
> * choreographed animations might compress motion
> * preview tool would be useful for composition: then GO
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>>() uky local headset comm
>> - when is that appropriate?
>> - did it conflict w/ backchannel comm?
>> - is there a better way to use it?
>> * director/producer only to camera guys
>> * take node operators off that channel?
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> - russ said second headset was very useful
> - johng found the local was crucial, but two headsets was too much
> - russ, biggest problem was couldn't give too much info to the
> director or mc...
> * if mc decides to go in some direction ("can anybody
> sing?")
> then it doesn't matter what russ tries to tell them
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>>() are there high priority technical issues to attack?
>> - new software
>> - better deployment schemes for urls, info, phone numbers, ppt
>> slides
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> * russ is beginning to track down presenter slides
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>> - more practice on emergency handling?
> * mc could have some backup topics to talk about in case
> of probs
> * jennifer, in the audience, said the reaction was
> positive to the
> singing ad-lib
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> * tom coffin suggests we stay on line and available
> during breaks
> so that folks can see and talk to the remote sights.
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> * russ and all suggest: shorter version of script for
> node operators
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> * wayne -- set names of ppt in advance....
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>* mark suggests a video camera on ag-tech... to augment
>* jennifer says would facilitate 'meet the tech folk' session
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