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• TAC comments for the PI
  • filled out by TTA members before, during, and after TAC meeting
  • to be reviewed the TAC chair
• Internal comments
  • filled out by TTA members before and during TAC meeting
  • will capture scheduler's comments for the TAC as they determine preliminary scheduling priorities prior to TAC
  • will capture notes during the TAC meeting that may inform the TAC comments for the SRP
  • assume various TTA members will communicate with each other as they edit the comments
  • Note, this is not the same comments as the Internal Comments from the SRP, which belong to the Proposal Review entityIn the System Description we have Comments for the PI and Internal Comments, similar to the review comments.  Here the Internal Comments were comments from the TAC to NRAO.  What I thought we agreed to was to add any comments from the TTA Group (e.g., comments from the scheduler to the TAC).  That is, combine different internal comments into one field.
    

We agreed that Scheduling Priorities should be assigned to a Observation Specification Disposition and NOT the Allocation Disposition.

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As a TAC member, I am representing my panel while the TAC comes to consensus about scheduling priorities, proprietary periods, scheduling constraints, recommended times, and comments TAC Comments to the PI. All The goal as a TAC member is to make recommendations for the Director's Review; the TAC doesn't "approve" any requests though , not approve the requests; the Director's rely Review relies heavily on our recommendations so we must be thorough. To do this, I need visibility to the entirety of the a proposal, even the author list (as long as the Dual Anonymous Review Policies allows it). I also need visibility to all of Consensus the SRP Comments, Feasibility Comments, and the TTA member's comments Comments to the TAC. I need to know what the TTA member (scheduler) recommends too (e.g., facility reports, proposal summaries) and how it compares to what the PI requested. There is a lot of information to keep track of here so I need slim, efficient views and detailed view of this information as well as ways to filter or sort to quickly move through proposalsdetailed view. Usually in the TAC meeting, we talk through proposals first by the Large Proposal type, then Regular Proposals. We then sort order by Facility , then Triggered, then the -  Triggered - Score, so it would be nice if these were easy "preset" filters (or tabs) for me to jumpy jump between. Oh, and I'd like to print out the proposals and the reports in case I won't have access to my computer during the meeting. I am a good model citizen and can be trusted to do right by all PIsFinally, I really do need full visibility into the proposals. Even if I was marked as conflicted on a proposal in my panel, that shouldn't mean anything now.

As a TAC chair, I still represent my panel but I also direct the meeting and am responsible for the finalizing the TAC's recommendations. I need to be able to do everything to a normal member does but I also need to be able to make edits to some comments and approve the comments.  Mostly I'll rely on the TTA members at the meeting to keep notes for me but I still need some editing powers.

As a TTA member, I can have many hats in during the TAC meeting. I may be taking notes in the Internal Comments or editing TAC comments for PI or even editing SRP Comments for PI. I could also be editing Observation Specification Dispositions on the fly, so I need access to all of the tools I had before, prior when I was building the ATM and OSDs. I'll likely just use versioning to make my edits, as I expect the information in the facility reports to be static once finalized for the TAC. However, I know I'm going to be preparing more reports for the Director's Review, based on the recommendations of the TAC.