[NeXus-committee] NIAC in Japan

[Peterson, Peter F.]

I¹m intending on going to NOBUGS and ICANS. I will request for the 2 days
before NOBUGS to attend NIAC since we have long lead times on travel.

I don¹t think that a virtual NIAC will work.

On 5/22/14, 9:55 AM, "Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk"
<Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:

>* Are you going to travel to Japan to attend NIAC and/or NOBUGS?
>
>Yes.
>
>* How open are you to the idea of having virtual NIAC meetings? Will you
>be able to
>  participate?
>
>Not very open at all.
>
>Tobias
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: NeXus-committee [mailto:nexus-committee-bounces at nexusformat.org] On
>Behalf Of Mark Könnecke
>Sent: 20 May 2014 08:01
>To: nexus-committee at nexusformat.org
>Subject: [NeXus-committee] NIAC in Japan
>
>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
>
> 
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