The "star" rating is still somewhat subjective. Some people took zillons
shifts but never became experts. But it is better than nothing.
-Eugene
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:19 -0500, Kijun Park wrote:
> Dear Mac,
>
> Hi, I think it would be a good idea to re-activate the star(color) rating
> which was used long time ago in CLAS. This tells people who has how many
> experiences in recent history(6 months). Especially, RC and PDL could have
> a caution in advance.
> Of course, I agree with your conclusion. Inexperience people should have
> more trainings before taking their own shifts.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Kijun
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, burkert wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:42:39 -0500
> > From: burkert <burkert@jlab.org>
> > To: hallb@jlab.org
> > Subject: owl shifts
> >
> > Dear Colleagues, please find below the observation of Mac Mestayer
> > regarding staffing of owl shifts. I fully share Mac's conclusions.
> > Volker Burkert
> >
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > Dear CLAS Collaborator;
> >
> > We have had several instances lately in which shift leaders
> > have demonstrated a lack of training or knowledge of CLAS
> > operations. Because of this, we have lost some beam time and
> > have unneccesarily paged our experts and run coordinators.
> > This problem is especially important for the owl shift.
> >
> > We propose several remedies:
> > 1) many of the owl-shift leaders are relatively inexperience
> > students or post-docs. It is important that the senior members
> > at each institution communicate with these persons to determine
> > whether they feel competent running the experiment. Our younger
> > people take a disproportionate number of these shifts; the senior
> > people must take responsibility for their readiness.
> > 2) documentation is scattered and sometime out-of-date. We
> > remind you of the primary sources of information:
> > - the elogbook. Read it regularly, especially before taking shifts.
> > - the shift-taker's manuals: linked under the Hall-B page.
> > - the current run information page; also linked under the Hall-B page.
> > It is the system experts' responsibility to keep these pages up-to-date.
> > Inform them of any deficiencies.
> > 3) we may need a "super-expert" status level which would be required
> > to be the owl shift leader. This requires a by-law and we ask you
> > all to consider this.
> >
> > Your ideas and feedback are encouraged.
> >
> > "mestayer@jlab.org", (757)-269-7252
> >
>
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