[Difx-users] DiFX users meeting 2016 pre-announcement

[Geoff Crew]

Hi Chris,

I'm just passing along what I was told (by Arthur Niell).
I was not party to whatever discussions set that date (and if it is firm),
so I can't say if the SOC was or was not consulted (in full or in part).

-- 

		Geoff (gbc at haystack.mit.edu)

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:51:35AM +0000, Chris.Phillips at csiro.au wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> 
> Surely the date of the IVTW has not been set without consulting the SOC?
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> > On 1 Apr 2016, at 6:43 AM, Geoff Crew <gbc at haystack.mit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm told the IVTW is scheduled for Oct 12-14 at Haystack.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > 		Geoff (gbc at haystack.mit.edu)
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 09:16:40PM +0000, Chris.Phillips at csiro.au wrote:
> >>   *Hi Adam
> >> 
> >>   Sounds good. For me all those dates are currently fine. It would be worth
> >>   coordinating with Haystack regarding the date of the IVTW meeting - to
> >>   either hold them back to back or with some separation in time.
> >> 
> >>   Cheers
> >> 
> >>   Chris
> >> 
> >>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 
> >>   From: Difx-users <difx-users-bounces at listmgr.nrao.edu> on behalf of Adam
> >>   Deller <deller at astron.nl>
> >>   Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2016 2:23 AM
> >>   To: difxusers
> >>   Cc: jiangwu at shao.ac.cn
> >>   Subject: [Difx-users] DiFX users meeting 2016 pre-announcement
> >> 
> >>   Dear difx-users and -developers,
> >>   The time has come to start planning the 10th (yes, 10th!) annual DiFX
> >>   users and developer's workshop.  At Hobart in 2015, we discussed possible
> >>   venues, and Shanghai was nominated with broad support.  Since the workshop
> >>   has been held in Europe and Australia three times each, the US twice, and
> >>   Asia only once so far, it would be appropriate and enjoyable to head to
> >>   China this year.
> >>   Wu Jiang has investigated some options for dates and locations.  The
> >>   baseline plan would be to hold the meeting in downtown Shanghai (where
> >>   there observatory headquarters are), which is most convenient for
> >>   transportation and accommodation.  We could arrange a visit to suburban
> >>   campus co-located with the Tianman and Sheshan 65m and 25m telescopes on
> >>   one day.
> >> 
> >>   A visa is required for most visitors to China. No visa is required for
> >>   ordinary passport holders from Singapore, Brunei and Japan to visit China
> >>   for up to 15 days for business, sightseeing, visiting relatives and
> >>   friends or transit.
> >>   For more information, please
> >>   see [1]http://cs.mfa.gov.cn/wgrlh/lhqz/lhqzjjs/, and note that it will be
> >>   necessary to  prepare your visa application at least 30 days before the
> >>   entry date to China.
> >> 
> >>   In terms of dates, the meeting has traditionally been held sometime
> >>   between September and November.  Due to some public holidays and other
> >>   meetings, the earlier part of this date range is not so convenient.  So we
> >>   would like to propose 3 options:
> >>   October 24-28
> >>   November 1-4
> >>   November 8-11
> >>   In each case, the users meeting would be held during the first two days,
> >>   and the developers meeting the last three days. If you want to attend the
> >>   DiFX users and developers meeting this year, can you please respond to
> >>   this mail with a preferred week or weeks, or any other scheduling
> >>   conflicts that we may have forgotten about?  If we can collect some
> >>   responses over the next week or two, it would be nice to select a date
> >>   soon to allow attendees plenty of time make travel plans and arrange visas
> >>   etc.  Once the date has been settled, there will be a meeting webpage put
> >>   up, registration made available, talks solicited, etc etc.
> >>   Cheers,
> >>   Adam and Wu Jiang
> >>   --
> >>   !=============================================================!
> >>   Dr. Adam Deller
> >>   Ph  +31 521595785 / Fax +31 521595101
> >>   Staff Astronomer, Astronomy Group
> >>   ASTRON, Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4
> >>   7991 PD Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
> >>   !=============================================================!
> >>   
> >> 
> >> References
> >> 
> >>   Visible links
> >>   1. http://cs.mfa.gov.cn/wgrlh/lhqz/lhqzjjs/
> > 
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