Facilities Representatives Discussion Group
From canSAS
Participants
- Peter Boesecke (ESRF)
- Paul Butler (NIST)
- Daniel Clemens (Germany)
- Charles Dewhurst (ILL)
- Eliott Gilbert (ANSTO)
- Rex Hjelm (LANSCE)
- Pete Jemian (APS)
- Steve King (ISIS)
- Ken Littrell (ORNL)
- Adrian Rennie (Users)
- Nick Terrill (Diamond)
News/Status
After the workshop, it became clear that not only were there a significant number of facilities fromt he meeting who wanted to participate, but quite a number of facilities that were unable to attend were mentioned as important to have particpate. This raises the question of how best to proceed. a tele/video conference with that many nodes and people is not likely to be productive, yet reducing representation seems to defeat the purpose of the group. Some suggestions so far are:
- divide into subgroups of no more than 6 or 7 (probably high for a vido link and a bit high for real discussions). This would require some kind of uber group to facilitate the communication between groups. Two ways to do this:
* Make up of groups is set radomly. * Regional groups are formed with the uber group having a representative from each of the regional groups
