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Resources and Timescales

The current AIPS++ staff is quite large: in aggregate, we have 25 people contributing just over 18 FTEs to the AIPS++ Project. Of these, 11 are employed by NRAO, and contribute 9.1 FTEs. The numbers for the other partners are: ATNF 4 and 2.45, BIMA/NCSA 5 and 3.25, NFRA 5 and 3.25. We think that some of these staff should participate in the general shift of the Project from development to operations, but we hesitate to prescribe how this should be done. The new resources needed to implement this plan are:

Operations Manager: providing the Operations Manager is probably best seen as an NRAO responsibility that is part of hosting the Project Center. Such a person should be appointed as soon as possible. The initial prime responsibility of the OM will be to implement this operations plan. The Operations Manager will also handle the mechanics of distributing AIPS++ via the mechanisms described above.
Documentation group, headed by an astronomer, to oversee the production and maintenance of high quality documentation, including demonstrations and tutorials.
Quality Assurance Group: could be located at any location. Location at the Project Center would have some minor advantages. Establishment of a QAG could proceed over the next year or two.
Support people at each site: this requires a migration towards a different type of expertise, more astronomically based than currently true. We recommend that the consortium sites review their staffing in light of this need.

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