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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory summit facility is currently preparing for its final construction downtime and its first operations engineering downtime. During this period the Simonyi Survey Telescope will not be operated at night; instead, the summit team will be busy with large, complex daytime engineering tasks. The downtime will last approximately four weeks, starting September 22nd and likely ending on October 17th, with October 20th as the contingency final day.

The energy was unmistakable at this year’s Rubin Community Workshop, held 28 July - 1 August in Tucson, Arizona. More than 280 members of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory community — including staff, science collaboration members, LSST Discovery Alliance-funded students, and other affiliated participants — gathered for a week of collaborative discussions and breakout sessions on the heels of Rubin's First Look image reveal event and the release of data taken by Rubin's Commissioning Camera.

March 29, 2016 - Following the Python in Astronomy 2016 meeting held last week in Seattle, over the weekend of March 26th/27th members of LSST Data Management met with people from the AstroPy community to discuss areas of overlap and synergy between the two projects. Topics for the meeting included coordinates handling, packaging and distribution, table interoperability, sky regions and masking, world coordinate systems and representation of data objects. The meeting was very positive and we are working on a report proposing how LSST and AstroPy should improve interoperability and code sharing.

^{Image: LSST-AstroPy Meeting at UW, March, 2016. Credit: M. Juric, LSST/UW}