[Sigmet-officers] draft of SIGMET workshop proposal, for comments and information

[Timothy Bowman]

Dear all,

It looks good! Thanks, Neil.

Last year I tried to get our workshop moved to Saturday, but the ASIST organizing committee stated that we are a small workshop and that the bigger ones would get the Saturday.  Just an FYI.  We had the biggest workshop on Friday by far this past year, so hopefully that will be in our favor. You've lowered the fees and I think this is a good move. We have a surplus of money, so I don't think covering the costs completely with registration fees is necessary. In addition, if Clarivate ends up sponsoring a lunch, the fees will be greatly reduced (as they charge a ridiculous amount for lunches at these ASIST conferences).   I like these deadlines; we can always extend it based on submissions if necessary given it is earlier than in the past.

BTW: Philippe Mongeon recently defended his dissertation successfully… everyone send him a big CONGRATS!

Best,
Tim


From: Sigmet-officers <sigmet-officers-bounces at asist.org> on behalf of "Smalheiser, Neil R" <neils at uic.edu>
Date: Friday, January 26, 2018 at 4:58 PM
To: "sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org" <sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org>, Sigmet-officers <sigmet-officers at asis.org>
Subject: [Sigmet-officers] draft of SIGMET workshop proposal, for comments and information

Here is a first draft of the proposal (see attached). I have highlighted in yellow three things that need special consideration and group decision-making:

  1.  Should we hold the workshop on Nov.12 or Nov. 15, ie. The first or last day of the conference? I said Nov 12, what does everyone think?
  2.  I put the registration fees at the same level as 2017. How do we decide what the right fee should be?
  3.  Please check the proposed deadline dates. Do they look ok or should we move one or more of them up or down?

And finally, please let me know that you have received this and can view the attachment. I have been spending out a lot of emails that get no replies at all, makes me wonder if they are living only in cyberspace.

Neil
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