Those who have volunteered to help with spectroscopic data reduction include Ariel Goobar, Serena Nobili, Gaston Folatelli, Gabriele Garavini in Sweden, Chris Lidman at ESO, and Susana Deustua at LBL. In addition Alex Conley is expected to play a role.

As of summer 2000, the spectra are being taken through standard IRAF data reduction routines so that the quality of the data and the consistency of the reductions by different groups can be assessed. A minimum goal of this effort is to have 2D spectra which are fully reduced (bias subtracted, dark-corrected, flattened, CR-cleaned, spatial and wavelength rectiified). Error matrices and bad-pixel matrices are also required.

Once the above effort is completed, the next major piece of work is the reduction of the final reference spectra obtained in spring 2000, and the composition of software to subtract these reference spectra from the spring 1999 spectra.

Nicolas Regnault has undertaken some the image reduction in France. Ana Mourao, Maria Cruz, Ana Lopez, and Paulo are working through the imaging data in Portugal.

It is expected that once Nicolas arrives as a postdoc in Berkeley (early October), he will continue work on the image reduction. Guillume Blanc is also coming to Berkeley to assist us and Nicolas with the image reduction.

We have a long list of analysis tasks needed to support our science goals. Perhaps 50% of the software to undertake this analysis already exists. My feeling at this point is the data reduction needs to be mostly completed before specfic roles for the analysis are spelled out. Otherwise I fear that the reduction will languish as people jump ahead to the more interesting and exciting analysis issues. Also, we need to have a better handle on the scope and quality of the data products before analysis tasks can be well formulated. (Of course analysis needs are already driving certain aspects of the data reduction, such as the generation of error arrays and bad pixel arrays.)