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

[Chris.Phillips at csiro.au]

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
>> 
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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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>> References
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