Getting Started
To avoid a ìDeath Marchî project we should be defining the architecture now. We need FY01 to budget correctly.
There is no IceCube funding for a software engineer. I have been consulting with several people for free. But, to have an engineering estimate of the schedule and budget, we would have to ask for a large commitment of timeÖ and pay for it.
If we start now, there is time to prepare for the upcoming reviews and build the detector according to a reasonable schedule.
If we wait a year, we will make unrealistic schedules that look good only on paperÖ which slip, causing the budget to be overrun. The project will be scaled down to the budget and ultimately the analysis may be compromisedÖ..