[Orechem] Our tenuous Dec. 5/6 meeting in the UK -- PLEASE READ!!

[Marlon Pierce]

I favor giving teleconference/skype/polycom a try.  We also have access 
to a site license for Adobe Breeze--we can use this for shared desktops.


Marlon


Carl Lagoze wrote:
> (Pardon the long note, but please read to end)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know you most be getting sick of my endless messages, but pity the poor nominal "project manager".
>
> My vision of an end-of-first year all-project meeting on December 5/6 seems to getting dimmer.  The roster so far is as follows:
>
> Cambridge 
> 	- Jim Downing (yes)
> 	- Peter Murray Rust  (no answer)
>
> Cornell
> 	- Carl Lagoze (yes, of course)
> 	- Theresa Velden (no)
>
> Indiana
> 	- Marlon Pierce (yes)
> 	- Geoffrey Fox (no)
>
> Penn State
> 	- Lee Giles (no)
> 	- Prasenjit Mitra (no)
> 	- Na Li (no)
> 	- Karl Mueller (maybe but reluctant)
>
> Southampton
> 	- Simon Coles (yes)
> 	- Jeremy Frey (maybe)
> 	- Mark Borkum (yes)
>
> Microsoft
> 	- Lee Dirks (no)
> 	- Alex Wade (unknown)
>
> I had considered this an important meeting for a number of reasons:
>
> - We have been working together now for a year and we need to review progress
> - We are in the midst of a substantive interoperability experiment that will 1) require a number of iterations to get right 2) hopefully set a firm foundation for our second  year of work
> - We need to plan our second year and come to agreement on what final project goals we want to work towards.
>
> I know we are all weary of travel, especially over the holiday period. And all of us have lots else to do.  But I do consider meetings essential for progress  and it is only fair to locate the next meeting in the UK.  Our alternatives are then:
>
> - Cancel the meeting and proceed by teleconference
> - Go ahead with the meeting and hope we can make maximal progress with a combination of f2f people and skyped in people.
> - Try to find another date - I don't have a lot of hope for this given the approaching holiday period.  I myself would have a hard time fitting it on another time through January.  
>
> I NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS ASAP!!! The Southampton folks need to finalize logistics and those planning to travel need to make plans.  Please offer your thoughts so we can make a decision NO LATER THAN FRIDAY!
>
> Carl
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