[cadynce] Pre-telecon Rant

[Gautam Thaker]

Patrick Lardieri wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> First thanks to Gautam for taking the initiative to put a strawman slide 
> set together. I believe that the presentation we make to Carol must 
> overriding deliver the following message: "WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS ON THE 
> TOOL CHAIN AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS INDICATE THE EXPECTED BENEFITS WILL 
> BE REALIZED." I believe that is the intent behind these slides but I 
> believe the message is hidden. Doug and I will work with Gautam to 
> reorganize, prune and possible add some other content (if it exists). If 
> people have specific suggestions please send them along. It would be 
> great to have a slide from Adam and Paul succinctly describing the 
> progress they have made in their respective parts of the tool chain 
> experiment. I think we need 5-7 really good slides.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> 

Folk,

I will rework these tonight, but I can't start till about 7:30pm. I will move some of the more techie slides to Backup, and have 
more summary messages up front. I am getting suggestions from many different people and to the extent that these are not 
conflicting I will address them all.

I think I make the mistake that I try to look at things from customer's point of view and ask "if I were Carol Galloway and Navy 
what would I want to hear to give me further confidence that the CADYNCE concepts are valid and that progress on the toolchain is 
being made?" I go wrong in thinking this means at least some details, but it is best to move all that to Backup and give just a 
2-3-5 slide summary. I think w/ luck our conversation with her tomorrow will be 30 minutes at most unless they ask questions or 
more details. (Patrick will present the slides, and he talks even faster than I do.) Though we are anxious and excited about our 
technologies and technical work we face this problem in terms of layers of interchanges with Navy.

Joe <----> Marvin/Admirals
Patrick/Doug <----> Carol G.
Gautam/Technocracts  <----> NO_ONE_TO_TALK_TO.

Thus, having understood this better I think we can create a much reduced set of up front slides, move others to backup, and we 
will be ok.

GHT