[Difx-users] DiFX workshop, 2023? {External}

[Adam Deller]

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. Walter has confirmed the
availability of a suitable meeting space at NRAO Socorro, and there was
near-universal support for NRAO Socorro for a destination, so I think we
can consider that endorsed (if you object, speak up now!).

Regarding dates, while most respondees could make most of the candidate
slots, there was (as expected) no single slot that everyone could make.
Slightly inconveniently, there was not even a slightly preferred date - the
distribution of responses basically flat across all 4 options! One point
that was raised was that for people travelling internationally, there may
be a benefit in placing the workshop close to another relevant meeting in
time, for instance the iVTW (whose date is not yet known) or ADASS (which
is Nov 5-9).  If anyone knows the timeline on which the IVTW meeting date
might be decided, please chime in!

While we've traditionally been pretty informal about these things, I would
welcome anyone who wanted to actively participate in planning the meeting
to raise their hands - if there is interest we can form an SOC to take on
the tasks of planning out a schedule, etc.  To faciliate meeting planning,
I started a google doc with some suggested topics, expanding on a list that
Walter started - you can find it at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5N2qPgdfA1hGhveZlScHi57tJ4ISTKgPiirGQwb2A4/edit.
It is world-writable so please don't make unilateral subtractions, although
unilateral additions are fine!  I have updated the meetings page on the
DiFX wiki (https://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/meetings)
to point at this google doc via the nextmeetings page, but I hope that
using google docs will make it easier for everyone to contribute, rather
than needing to get a wiki account.

Cheers,
Adam

On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 12:35, Adam Deller <adeller at astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:

> Hello fellow DiFX enthusiasts! I hope you are all healthy, happy, and
> enjoying high throughput wherever you are.
>
> Since COVID spoiled our 13-year unbroken run of annual workshops in 2020,
> we've greatly missed these in-person opportunities to collaborate. I'm
> hoping that in 2023 we can re-start the DiFX workshop series! Quite apart
> from catching up on missed interactions, it is quite an interesting time
> with GPU-DiFX making big strides and various broad-banding efforts underway
> in our user community.
>
> Traditionally we've held the DiFX workshop in September or October, and
> tried to spread it around the geographical user base.  Looking back at
> https://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/meetings, it seems
> that North America is probably the most overdue to host. I made some
> preliminary inquiries and it seems like NRAO Socorro might be a candidate
> to host a meeting in that time frame, with a preference for early September
> out of that two-month window.  However, if any other institutes are very
> keen to host (either in North America or elsewhere) please raise your
> virtual hand via reply email!
>
> Can I ask that people who are interested in attending a DiFX users and
> developers meeting fill out the following form:
> https://forms.gle/hqn6FUhSNCtnHzBR6 - it should only take 2 minutes max.
> If you have trouble accessing the form, feel free to respond via email with
> whether the above plan would work for you, or preferred date ranges and
> (im)possible locations if it doesn't.  If you could express interest within
> the next ~week, so by March 10, we could move forward with refining
> potential locations and dates.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
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> Prof. Adam Deller
> Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing
> Swinburne University of Technology
> John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
> phone: +61 3 9214 5307
> fax: +61 3 9214 8797
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Prof. Adam Deller
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing
Swinburne University of Technology
John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
phone: +61 3 9214 5307
fax: +61 3 9214 8797
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