[NeXus-committee] NIAC meeting 2014

[Osborn, Raymond]

I think we really should revive the idea of getting funding from the facilities for these meetings. It is crazy that we are dependent on personal travel money that is always scarce, especially when it means that some facilities are geographically disadvantaged. It might even provide funding for other needed resources. Rob McGreevy, before he became the ISIS director (I'm sure he hasn't changed his mind), thought that it was a no-brainer for a facility to be prepared to pay a NIAC fee of a few thousand dollars in exchange for maintaining a world standard that is now beginning to save them much more money in development costs. The format is sufficiently mature and widely used for a fee like $5K pa per facility to be a sensible investment, and a drop in the bucket compared to their operational costs. 

I'm prepared to draft a letter arguing the case to be sent to the facility directors if the committee thinks this is a good idea.

Ray

On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:21 PM, "Clausen, Bjorn" <clausen at lanl.gov> wrote:

> Our funding situation is unfortunately rather questionable at this point, so I would have a hard time getting approved to travel anywhere in early FY15...
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> Bjørn
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Könnecke [mailto:mark.koennecke at psi.ch] 
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 8:18 AM
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> Subject: [NeXus-committee] NIAC meeting 2014
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> Hi,
> 
> the results from the survey who will attend a NIAC in Japan around NOBUGS showed very low
> attendance: only 5 out of 16 members would show up. I still believe that a face to face meeting would be the best option. Thus here is a new question:
> 
> * Can you attend a NIAC meeting in the US, probably near chicago in autumn/ early winter?
> 
> If the result is positive we will  find about possible dates and do a doodle poll to find the date.
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> Best Regards,
> 
>     Mark Koennecke
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