[Olympus] Manpower 22 December to 2 January

[Douglas Kenneth Hasell]

Dear Colleagues,

	There is a chance we can run OLYMPUS over the Christmas - New Years's break (i.e. from 22 December, 2012 until 2 January, 2013) before turning off DORIS and OLYMPUS forever.

	But we need people for these shifts plus run coordinators.  And we need to know who and how many are available by the end of the week so we can tell DORIS operations whether or not we can man our shifts.  Then they will organise the shifts for the accelerators.

	In principle we need 6 people for each day.  However, it should not be the same 6 people for the entire period or even for most of the period.  After running for two month we all deserve a holiday.

	I have created a Doodle poll in order to determine the number of people who would be willing to take some shifts between 22 December and 2 January.  The poll lists the dates in this period.  Each person should indicate whether or not they are available on that date.  If you indicate that you are available you must be willing to take any type of shift on that date (i.e. overnight, day, or evening).

	When I am making the schedule I will try to distribute people fairly with a pattern like shift, 24 hours off, shift, 24 hours off, shift, 24 hours off, etc.  That way everyone will take each type of shift with a reasonable break between shifts.  If anyone wants to volunteer for all overnight shifts let me know; otherwise I will try to follow the pattern I just described.

	This additional time might be very useful to achieve the design luminosity or to take some data at a different beam energy.  So every effort should be made to man these dates.  Please fill out the poll as soon as possible.

	The doodle poll is at:

http://www.doodle.com/tc79ytzpdzsnu89w

                                                    Cheers,
                                                            Douglas

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