<div dir="ltr">This is the second message on the subject<br><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arnold H. Rots Chandra X-ray Science Center<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lucio Chiappetti</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lucio@lambrate.inaf.it">lucio@lambrate.inaf.it</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:09 AM<br>Subject: Re: disbandment of the Regional Committees, THIRD step<br>To: Chairs of IAUFWG RCs -- Adam Dobrzycki <<a href="mailto:adobrzyc@eso.org">adobrzyc@eso.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:arots@cfa.harvard.edu">arots@cfa.harvard.edu</a>, Osamu Kanamitsu <<a href="mailto:kanamitu@fukuoka-edu.ac.jp">kanamitu@fukuoka-edu.ac.jp</a>>, <a href="mailto:mark@calabretta.id.au">mark@calabretta.id.au</a><br>
<br><br><div class="im">On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:<br>
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I have prepared a new draft taking into account the comments received so far by the IAUFWG. The revised version (with links to the older ONES) is at the usual place <a href="http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/FITS/Proposal/newrules.html" target="_blank">http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.<u></u>it/~lucio/FITS/Proposal/<u></u>newrules.html</a><br>
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Dear chairmen of the to-be-disbanded Regional Committees, I draw your attention to the section of the quoted web page titled "Regional Committee disbandment" and in particular to the second bullet saying<br>
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"It is at discretion of the RC chairpersons to hold an equivalent<br>
public comment period on the internal RC mailing lists (whose<br>
membership is currently not disclosed to the IAU FWG) and eventually<br>
hold a formal vote inside their RC [AR]. The RC chairpersons will<br>
report to the IAUFWG. I haven't currently received any such report."<br>
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I know that Adam had a round on the EU RC last February, and Arnold reported the NA RC to be "quiet" in January.<br>
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Since I do not know the complete memberships of the RCs, I am not aware whether all RC members are on FITSBITS, nor how active they have been in the past.<br>
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Via <a href="http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits" target="_blank">http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/fitsbits</a> you should be able to access the list of subscribers of FITSBITS via your personal password (or to obtain one), and check whether the RC members are on FITSBITS.<br>
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I suggest that you AT LEAST tell current RC members to subscribe to FITSBITS (via the above page) if they aren't already members, as most of the future public discussion will take place on FITSBITS.<br>
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It is up to you to make sure that the RCs are aware of the current level of discussion about the draft, as said in the quoted sentence above. Please do tell me if there are any reasons to delay the submission of the draft to FITSBITS (to wait for your internal actions within the RC to be complete).<br>
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As said in the draft web page, as IAUFWG we might consider new IAUFWG members coming from the RCs (also in replacement of those who left or expressed wish to leave). I would say that a "waving of hands" is possibly not enough, while an explicit activity in the past with FITS, or a present or planned involvement in active projects using FITS could be a requirement.<br>
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Please let me know,<br>
Lucio<br>
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