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<p>Hi Everyone!</p>
<p> The deadline for voting on NIAC2020 proposals has now passed. All proposals were accepted by a wide margin, as summarised in the table shown here:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC2020.html#decisions" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk591456" previewremoved="true">https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC2020.html#decisions</a></p>
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<p>Thank you to everyone who participated. However, there are still plenty of things we can do to advance NeXus (as the lists of Github issues will attest) and it is never to early to start discussing ideas for new proposals!<br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Ben<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> NeXus-tech <nexus-tech-bounces@shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> on behalf of Watts Benjamin (PSI) via NeXus-tech <nexus-tech@shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NeXus-committee@nexusformat.org; nexus-tech@nexusformat.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NeXus-tech] NIAC2020 final voting</font>
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<p>Hi Everyone!</p>
<p> The final NIAC session has closed, but the voting will remain open until UTC 12:00 on Nov 3rd. Until then you can cast and adjust your votes (or challenge the proposal to trigger a 1-month period for further comments). Voting can be performed either by
applying the appropriate emojis to the associated github issues, or by returning the email voting form below. The list of proposals to vote on (with convenient links) can be found here:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC2020.html#decisions" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk908839" previewremoved="true">https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC2020.html#decisions</a></p>
<p>Freddie is still working on the minutes and we hope to get them online soon.<br>
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<p><b>All NIAC members are requested to vote on all proposals.</b> If you don't wish to vote for or against a proposal, please mark your vote as abstain to record your acknowledgement of the vote taking place.</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Ben</p>
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<p><b>Email Voting Form</b><br>
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<p>Proposal title: NXmx Approval<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/45#issuecomment-707254127" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk38550" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/45#issuecomment-707254127</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: @creator_version<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/51#issuecomment-707349309" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk220939" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/51#issuecomment-707349309</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Inconsistent Field Naming<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/791#issuecomment-707365329" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk540304" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/791#issuecomment-707365329</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Reservation of Name Prefixes<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/49#issuecomment-707383140" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk136450" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/49#issuecomment-707383140</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Reserve Some Prefixes<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/49#issuecomment-707383223" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk727267" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/49#issuecomment-707383223</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Allow Management of Prefixes by Email Voting<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/49#issuecomment-707384329" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk210566" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/49#issuecomment-707384329</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Elect Benjamin Watts as NIAC Chair<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707737492" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk727657" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707737492</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Elect Freddie Akeroyd as NIAC Secretary<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707737135" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk862090" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707737135</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: <span>Elect Peter Chang as Definition Release Manager</span><br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707742461" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk901378" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707742461</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: <span>Elect Stuart Campbell as Technical Manager</span><br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707763232" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk82566" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/70#issuecomment-707763232</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Clarify Naming Convention<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/671#issuecomment-715476138" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk538155" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/671#issuecomment-715476138</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Encourage Tech Demo of PIDs for NeXus Terminology<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/73#issuecomment-716609739" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk398974" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/73#issuecomment-716609739</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Update Constitution to Better Express Rules Approved at NIAC2018<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/71#issuecomment-716617317" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk605841" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/71#issuecomment-716617317</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: Relax Restrictions on Links<br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/77#issuecomment-716643766" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk701376" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/77#issuecomment-716643766</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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<p>Proposal title: <span>Allow UUID Attributes, entry_identifier_uuid Field and Reserve Prefix for the BlueSky Project</span><br>
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<p>Further information: <a href="https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/80#issuecomment-716662624" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk879795" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/nexusformat/NIAC/issues/80#issuecomment-716662624</a><br>
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<p>[ ] Accept</p>
<p>[ ] Reject</p>
<p>[ ] Abstain</p>
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