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[Thomas K Hemmick <hemmick AT skipper.physics.sunysb.edu>]

Happy New Year!

I would like to establish a series of regular meetings about "general progress" on the TPC project.  Our current meetings (including the engineering meetings AND the electronics meetings AND the software meetings) are held at a VERY highly detailed level and are not particularly useful for remote or new collaborators to the project.  As an example, we spent most of this Wednesday's engineering meeting discussing the proper alloy for the end ring of the outer field cage prototype and Next Wednesday, we'll be taking about surface prep to improve gluing to this part.

For these general progress meetings, I would like to focus on efforts in preparation for the factory production of TPC modules that will become the critical effort.  Please remember that factory setup will begin before the current calendar (2017) year ends and within a year's time, each factory will need to be making pre-production prototypes as part of their site validation process.

Chatting with a few folks, it seems that Thursday afternoon next week might work.  Although remote participants would prefer earlier in the day, the next L2 manager's meeting blocks the preferred time slot and will be a critical one in preparation for our CD-1 that occurs this coming June.

Let's use my bluejeans link ( https://bluejeans.com/6755372092/ ) and hold the meeting from 1pm to 3pm on Thursday January 19..  I have set up an Indico page here: ( https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2748 ).

The agenda will include an overview of the factory model from me and VERY VERY VERY BRIEF reports on status from our remote sites.

Thanks!

Tom