[wfc] Fwd: disbandment of the Regional Committees, THIRD step

[Arnold Rots]

This is the second message on the subject

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lucio Chiappetti <lucio at lambrate.inaf.it>
Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: disbandment of the Regional Committees, THIRD step
To: Chairs of IAUFWG RCs -- Adam Dobrzycki <adobrzyc at eso.org>,
arots at cfa.harvard.edu, Osamu Kanamitsu <kanamitu at fukuoka-edu.ac.jp>,
mark at calabretta.id.au


On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

 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 http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.**it/~lucio/FITS/Proposal/**
> newrules.html<http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/FITS/Proposal/newrules.html>
>

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

   "It is at discretion of the RC chairpersons to hold an equivalent
   public comment period on the internal RC mailing lists (whose
   membership is currently not disclosed to the IAU FWG) and eventually
   hold a formal vote inside their RC [AR]. The RC chairpersons will
   report to the IAUFWG. I haven't currently received any such report."

I know that Adam had a round on the EU RC last February, and Arnold
reported the NA RC to be "quiet" in January.

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.

Via http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/**mailman/listinfo/fitsbits<http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits>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.

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.

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).

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.

Please let me know,
                                    Lucio
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