Minutes from target meeting held October 24 2008 in 892-2-009 These minutes are available also from: http://wwwcompass.cern.ch/compass/detector/target/Minutes/2008/ a) Jaakko: calculate radiation heat leak for polarized GPD target. Large uncertainty in the emissivities. http://wwwcompass.cern.ch/elog/target_polar/67 b) Fabrice: Leybold modified vacuum pump maintenance interval 3000 h. PLC for this system would increase the price by 6 kEUR. The roots has internal bypass valve that opens at 40 mbar. Norihiro: helium flows of 400 mmol/s or more are used in the evaporator start up.