[NeXus-committee] NIAC in Japan

[Mark Könnecke]

Dear all,


at this time we are planning to hold the next full NIAC meeting and code camp 
in Japan, before NOBUGS. We would need a full NIAC meeting; we need to 
elect officers and attend to some other business. From an informal survey we got 
the impression that few people actually intend to travel to japan. Or have serious 
problems to get the trip funded. Thus, in order to get a more complete picture, please 
answer this question:


* Are you going to travel to Japan to attend NIAC and/or NOBUGS?


It also seems that our american partners will have trouble getting travel funded 
for the foreseeable future.  A possible alternative would be to hold virtual NIAC
meetings via some teleconferencing setup. This would also open up the possibility 
to hold NIAC meetings more often in order to speed up our response time. Thus, 
another question?

* How open are you to the idea of having virtual NIAC meetings? Will you be able to 
  participate?

The tech sub committee will start evaluating the necessary technology. If you know of any 
free or commercial teleconferencing system which works nicely across continents, please 
let us know. So far we have Google Hangout, Skype group meetings and Adobe Connect on 
our list of  things to evaluate. 


Best Regards,


       Mark Koennecke