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

[Geoff Crew]

I'm told the IVTW is scheduled for Oct 12-14 at Haystack.

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		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
> 
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>    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
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