acsws01

• Good experience 5 days most of ACS architecture was reviewed
• They feel they can rely on ACS framework
• Hello everyone, sorry for not replying during the round table. I wanna thank all instructors and speakers for managing to organize this really interesting workshop. These have been my first steps with the ACS framework but after 5 days I can say I already learnt enough about it. I think that the documentation on the website is well done and that it will be useful in the future too, along with the recordings. I also found interesting the projects presentations (CTA, LLAMA, UFRO). And of course I liked a lot the project we tried to develop and I enjoyed collaborating with my group mates. Thanks again!

acsws02

• Impressed by the organization considering the large number of participants
• Professional, responsive and good material
• Diverse level of experience between participants and members of each group
• Some people even wants to re-do the components on their own

acsws04

• Engineering department from ALMA, who has a good system overview, but lacked detailed information on ACS
• Usually closer to the instruments and hardware, so now there's a better picture having a bit of knowledge on the software
• More direct approach rather than abstract, due to their nature, but happy to see where hardware and software finally meet
• Liked the presentations and topics, and also the other projects presentations (CTA, LLAMA and UFRO)
• Maybe use old workshop repositories to use as material for future workshops

acsws05

• In this case it was small group, but everything worked correctly
• It was super fun and thanks to all the group

acsws06

• Good experience, where we were able to learn many things
• Good workshop management, tools collaboration and all the work
• The group sessions were very good to have information about the issues and problems that were found
• Right format of the workshop
• No comments, but a lot of thanks

acsws07

• No one present

acsws08

• Thanks for organizing workshop
• Being a newcomer to ACS the biggest challenge was to get the initial setup correct (INTROOT, awv repo and components, CDB). The follow along sessions were a great help with that

acsws09

• Because the workshop materials were large (8GB) and only available the night before the workshop, the first day was a distracting scramble to get everybody set up. Appreciate the work that went into preparing those materials, and the quality of the result

• A lot of background and examples to know how to do in an actual implementation
• Following along practical sessions was really useful
• No ACS knowledge at the beginning and now I'm able to prepare a small distributed program, so it's a good result

acsws10

• Thanks for the workshop
• I knew nothing, but I learnt a lot, both from the organization, but also from my own group
• The workshop was very useful, relatively lack of knowledge in ACS, but some CORBA background, now have the basics and the material to go back when doing actual implementations

acsws11

• Thanks the people that participated in the organization and execution of the workshop
• Wasn't frustrating and got to learn a lot. Received help from a lot of people in the workshop and the partners, so grateful about the experience
• Technical aspects:
  • Discover the power of IDL and how to use it (Both definition and documentation)
  • INTROOT output directory, but generated files, headers and other things available
  • Order of compilation and execution
  • Working environment for everyone
  • Anecdotes also put in from time to time
• Visual studio code was new, but was very useful and practical
• Very fun to work on this kind of thing and got to learn a lot on the way
• Practical sessions and telescope moving experience

acsws12

• First time in ACS workshop, although already knew a little about ACS
  • I still learned a lot and I found it very useful
  • Cleared lots of doubts during the workshop, but there's still plenty to figure out!
  • Thanks to the organization and to my group
• First time with ACS, starting to work in LLAMA and this is very useful to start working with ACS
• Doubts about the deployment process for production environments

acsws13

• Partially worked with group even though prt of the advanced track, but took the time to make some other questions 
• Thanks to the organization and found very nice the participation in this workshop
• I want thank everyone, but specially thank t he idea of making ACS a community product and for the organization of the workshop and all institutions that are involved
• Virtual version brought more people to the table
• Documentation was very good and everything was in time
• Complain with visual studio code as they lost a lot of time to configure it and then didn't know how to take advantage of it

Advanced Track Comments

• Torsten
  • Very interesting
  • Using ACS for quite some time, but not too many practical work these days
  • Helped to remember lots of interesting stuff
  • Hints in how to work better together in the future and how to organize the community together
  • Successful workshop, so be proud
  • Good remotely experience, which was forced by the pandemic, but there are benefits of doing it even in normal conditions

Instructors

• Igor
  • Grateful for picking up the suggestion to organize the workshop
  • Quite impressed on the short notice and quick organization
  • Quite happy about the number of participants in the workshop
  • A lot of homework from advanced track
  • We have to all make small steps and efforts to work as a community into improving everything
  • We have get acquaintances with each other, so there's better trust to ask things to each other and improve communication in general
• Jorge S.
  • Thanks for all the participants to come and please ask any question in the future!
• Mario
  • All the people motivated!
  • Congratulate on the achievements of all the groups
  • Discussions in the advanced track for the future of ACS were very interesting