Minutes of Aug 19, 2009

This inaugural meeting took place as a "meet-me" audio conference call at 6AM USA Mountain Time and 10PM Sydney time. The participants to the call were:

Participants

• Paul Butler: convener (NIST)
• Rex Hjelm (LANSCE)
• Pete Jemian (APS)
• Andrew Jackson (NIST)
• Steve King (ISIS)
• Adrian Rennie (quintessential nomadic scatterer)
• Mitsuhiro Shibayama (U. of Tokyo reactor and Japan rep)
• Eliott Gilbert (ANSTO)
• Sung-Min Choi (KAIST -- HANARO)

The meeting began with an update of the status of the various canSAS working groups:

• Facilities Representatives Discussion Group:

Paul Butler indicated that after a lot of thought and discussion and talking to teleconference type people about various options such as video links and/or net meeting or other web based venues, it seemed like the only viable option for a group of the size we could be is the old fashioned phone call and that future meetings will continue in that vein barring some novel clever suggestion. Given the vast time zone differences, Elliot Gilbert suggested that the phone may be best anyway as it makes it easy to participate from home or office or anywhere in between. Paul Butler further suggested that the original idea was to have such a meeting on the order of once a quarter. However, looking at the number of potential participants, it may be advisable to try something once a month and expect that significant numbers would not join each time thus providing the venue while mitigating problems of overwhelming numbers. Along those lines, He pointed out that for the first call, he decided to invite all that were on the original list along with Sun-Min Choi from Korea and Mitsuhiro Shibayama from Japan since asia was poorly represented at the canSAS V meeting. A topic for next discussion should be who to contact at the many other facilities and how to involve them.

• Data formats:

Andrew Jackson