[Halld-jlab] [Halld-online] Head's up on purchases

[Fernando J Barbosa]

Hi Elliott,

Indeed Hovanes discussed this with me and I recall he mentioned the 
purchase of these scopes at the Hall D meeting. I am also of the opinion 
that there is no benefit in emailing everyone about purchases of this 
nature. This is not a matter of openness, in my opinion, just a matter 
of effectiveness.

Best regards,
Fernando

On 5/18/2012 5:35 PM, Hovanes Egiyan wrote:
> Hi Elliott,
>
> Since your e-mail clearly was about the PR that I recently submitted I
> have to comment on it.
> It was clear that we needed to buy a couple of scopes for generic use,
> at least to me ,
> since many times I personally needed a scope and had to look for an hour
> to get one, and
> I know that others in the group had the same experience too. And we did
> have  discussions
> about it a couple of times, at least at the controls meetings where you
> were present.
> And also I am sure  that I announced at the Wednesday collaboration
> meeting that we
> actually ordered them.
> People who in my opinion had the most valuable input on the selection of
> the scopes,
> have been consulted, in particular Fernando, and there was a discussion
> of what to buy.
> I believe involving "everyone else" in the GlueX collaboration or in the
> online mailing list
> in every purchase for Hall D is not a reasonable thing to do.
>
> Hovanes.
>
>
>
> On 05/18/2012 03:55 PM, Elliott Wolin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the spirit of openness I think it's best that we all give everyone
>> else a head's up when we are thinking about purchasing something.  I
>> recall hearing about oscilloscopes, which are of general interest...were
>> any actually purchased?  Many in the Online and Controls group may be
>> interested in them, and may have input into which model(s) to buy.
>>
>> Anyway, it costs nothing to send out an email letting everyone know you
>> are thinking of or about to purchase something.
>>
>> Of course I'm not talking about routine supplies or items that are of no
>> interest to others.
>>
>> One problem I saw in the early days of the Hall B Online and Controls
>> efforts was that some groups didn't talk to each other, and this caused
>> many problems.  Let's continue in our very open way and make sure
>> everyone gets informed about as much as possible.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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