At the January CLAS collaboration meeting we agreed that each
member is expected to do some form of service work. The following
statement is a proposal for a specific CLAS by-law which will be
presented and discussed at the June meeting. I am sending it
out to the whole collaboration so that you will have time to
consider it in detail as it affects every institution. I wrote
the following myself, but I have had plenty of feedback, especially
from Larry Dennis, Gail Dodge, Dieter Cords and Steve Dytman.
``Now that CLAS has been built and commissioned the responsibilities
of the member institutions has shifted from construction issues
to those regarding operation, calibration and analysis. To
acknowledge this change, each institution shall provide a proposal
for service work to the collaboration which will supersede the
Memoranda of Understanding as the primary contract defining collaboration
duties in addition to the responsibilities of shift-taking.
The document shall explicitly state the nature and duration of the
institution's proposed service work where service work is defined as
the following:
- Service work can be hardware or software work which is beneficial
to the collaboration as a whole.
- Service work does not include physics analyses per se,
but does include physics calculations or software implementations
which are general enough to be used by others.
- The service work proposal can be a single task or a collection of
separate tasks taken by individuals within the institution.
The suitability of an institution's proposal for service work shall
be judged by a sub-committee appointed by the membership committee.
The sub-committee will work with the institution to resolve any issues
regarding the kind or amount of work proposed. If disagreements can not
be worked out between the institution and the sub-committee, final authority
rests with the whole collaboration."
regards,
Mac Mestayer