ESO Users' Committee : Poll 2007
                               Deadline for submission :  March, 19th
  
           Dear Colleague,

           I would highly appreciate  if you could spend a few minutes to fill in the questionnaire below.
           It will facilitate the preparation of the next meeting of the ESO Users' Committee (UC), in April 2007,
           and help me acting as an interface between ESO and the Danish users.

            The questionnaire is divided into two parts :

            1.  ESO General Operation
          2.  This year Special Topic : The ESO instrument pipelines and data processing developments

           Note that you do not need to fill out the questionnaire completely. Ignore any question which are not relevant to you.


           The material submitted will be treated confidentially.
   
                                          Thank you,

                                                             Uffe Gråe Jørgensen
                                                             Danish UC representative
                                                                           

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                                     Your Profile

      How often do you observe with ESO telescopes and instruments
Very often (each period)
 often (every two-four periods)
 occasionnally
 I am a potential future user (due to new instruments and/or telescopes)


                  Poll 2007, Part 1 : General Operation
 
                                    

  1 - How do you rank of the general information offered by ESO ?
  

Excellent
 Good
 Acceptable
 Insufficient
The Web
The Messenger
Press releases
electronic NewsLetter
                                




  2 - Proposal preparation, submission and evaluation
     a - The resources in the Call for Proposals are
complete partly complete incomplete useless

    b - The documentation  in the manuals is
excellent sufficient incomplete  
lousy
 
    c - The documentation provided on the ESO WEB is
excellent sufficient
incomplete
 lousy
 
 Any comments with respect to 2a-c ?
     

   d - Did you experience any problem with the proposal submission and WEB letters (e.g. notification) ?
   No 
   Yes
   If yes, which one(s) ?
 

    e - How do you evaluate the work of the OPC and the comments you receive from the panels ?

excellent  
acceptable incomplete very bad

    f - Any further comments as for the proposal submission, preparation and evaluation ?
 

    3 - Visitor mode observations

  a - How was the introduction at the telescope and assistance during the observations ?
excellent
sufficient incomplete lousy
        
  b - Did you receive a complete data set (incl. calibration data) and were the data delivered timely ?
      Yes
      No 
    Comments ?
 

  c - Any comment as to the visitor mode observations ?
 

 4 - Service mode observations

  a - Phase II preparation: Did you have sufficient time to prepare your phase II (deadline) ?
       Yes
       No 
       Any comment ?
 

  b - Could you sufficiently monitor your service mode observations ?

       Yes
       No 
       If not, can you suggest a way to improve the situation ? Please, be as precise as possible
   

  c - Did you receive a complete data set within your specifications (incl. calibration data)
       and were the data delivered timely ?
       Yes
       No   
       If not, why ?
 


 
  d - What kind of information would like to have with your Service Mode data ?
        Please, be as specific as possible
 
 
 5 -  Communication to ESO

  a) Are there any specific questions you would like to be addressed at the UC meeting ?

  

 b) Take advantage of the following box to report any *specific* problem with one of your runs. Indicate
      your run ID, OB number if relevant, and a short but clear description of the problem.

 


   
       Poll 2007, Part 2 : Instrument pipelines and data processind developments
    6 - How do you judge the current ESO instrument pipelines ?
  
        CRIRES                     excellent good fairly good poor
        FLAMES/UVES        excellent good fairly good poor
        FLAMES/ARGUS     excellent good fairly good poor
        FLAMES/MEDUSA  excellent good fairly good poor
        FORS2                         excellent good fairly good poor
        ISAAC                         excellent good fairly good poor
        MIDI                            excellent good fairly good poor
        NACO                          excellent good fairly good poor
        SINFONI                     excellent good fairly good poor
        VIMOS                        excellent good fairly good poor
        VISIR                          excellent good fairly good poor
        VLTI                            excellent good fairly good poor

  7 - Has any of your science goals ever been hampered by the lack of an adequate pipeline although a suitable instrument exists ?
        No      Yes

        If yes, please provide below information on the conditions and consequences :     
        

 
  8 - How do you qualify the document on the existing pipelines ?
         excellent good fairly good poor
 
  9 - Can you understand and control easily enough the different reduction/analysis parameters ?
        No      Yes

 10 - Have you found it necessary to develop your own data reduction process that has the same functionality as an already existing pipeline?
       No      Yes

      If yes - has this been  widely distributed (e.g. by publishing the method in a journal)? 
       No      Yes
 
  11 - Are you aware of the SAMPO project ?
        No      Yes

       If not, please look at  http://www.eso.org/sampo/documents.shtml

   What are your expectations from SAMPO ?
  


           Thank you very much for filling out the Poll 2007 !