Tasks of the working group¶

The SkyPortal Coordinator maintains GRANDMA's ICARE instance, manages alert stream integrations (GCN, Fink, BOOM), oversees telescope connections, and serves as GRANDMA's liaison to the broader SkyPortal development community.

1. Service to the users:

• Manage the user accounts in ICARE itself (e.g. granting permissions), handling data access issues, managing IAM account access via EduGain, Slack, and approving new accounts.
• Listening to user needs / bug reports / feature requests on all dedicated channels (slack, email, skyportal directly). Most of these should be collected and reported by follow-up advocates.
• Also collect feature requests and bug reports from other collaboration chairs of services that connect to/from SkyPortal: Stdpipe chair, Telescope chairs, Program chairs.
• Notify users (via slack) of expected (e.g. planned updates) - and unexpected - downtimes.

2. Liaison with SkyPortal team:

• Supervise the report of ongoing activities to the Skyportal telecons
• Coordinate/collaborate with other teams participating to the development of SkyPortal (e.g. ZTF) to prevent duplication of efforts and align development priorities, in order to maximize throughput.

3. Developments:

• Develop workflows for data sharing with other SkyPortals, other Marshals, and public platforms.
• Coordinate integration with other collaboration tools/services (STDpipe/web)
• Maintenance of Icare’s deployment, handling occasional downtimes, and preventing them by monitoring resource usage regularly.

4. Training/Documentation:

• Develop tutorials for using SkyPortal in Skyportal channels
• Supervise the post of regular updates of ICARE in slack and for ACME/ICARE
• Supervise a working wiki will all references and documentation for GRANDMA
• Supervise and support the documentation of Skyportal in Github (especially the translation of Icare specific development into the SkyPortal documentation)