* Notes from the discussion at April 19, 2015 collaboration meeting *

1. Shifts and Authorship 
- The general consensus was that we should use 2-person shift crews.  We don't have a cryogenic target, target operation during production should be quite straightforward, and we don't want to overload shifters.
- Assuming a 60-day run, this would require about 360 shifts for the experiment
- It seems reasonable to require something on the scale of 5 or 6 shifts (or run coordination/expert duties) for authorship seems reasonable.
- The collaboration is too small and informal to justify formal collaboration rules at this point; we will post the authorship requirements clearly on the experiment website or wiki when the time comes to start scheduling shifts. 

2. Theses
- It is important for PhD and Masters thesis students to have well scoped thesis projects, and for the rest of the collaboration to be aware of what each student is doing.
- We encourage supervisors and students to discuss thesis topics with the spokespeople whenever they are reasonably sure that they want to do an APEX thesis.
- There are several ways to split up the physics analysis into distinct PhD thesis results (for example, even within the bump hunt there are 4 different energy settings to analyze and it's useful to use more than one background model; there are also measurements that can also be done on the trident data itself).  

3. Technical papers
- Several groups have done work in preparation for APEX that is or will soon be suitable for a technical publication.  
- The spokespeople will encourage these publications where appropriate and try to find point people.
- We would like these papers to be circulated to APEX collaborators for feedback and questions (and most importantly for the full collaboration's education) but in most cases they should be signed by the smaller group of people wo have worked on the project in question.