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

[Philippe Mongeon]

Hey guys (and thanks Tim),

Thank you Neil for putting the proposal together, looks pretty good.

*Date*
I was looking at this https://www.asist.org/am18/schedule-at-a-glance/ and
I wonder if the 12th is actually an option?
As Tim says, Friday and Saturday (the 9th and 10th) are usually the
workshop days.
In any case, I also think that before the conference is better than after.

*Fees*
I think fees were generally too high in the past, so I think the fees
proposed by Neil sound good.
I see that in the proposal, lunch is not included. This is a good idea
since, as Tim said, included lunches are super expensive.
Question: it's been decided that we'll have the Workshop at the conference
hotel? or that has not been decided yet?

Also, if I remember correctly, we had fully reimbursed the workshop fees to
students in 2015 and 2016.
That was complicated, so if we want to go in that direction, we could
simply make it free for students(?).

*Deadlines*
Those seem fine!

Cheers,
Philippe











2018-01-29 11:20 GMT-05:00 Timothy Bowman <timothy.d.bowman at wayne.edu>:

> Dear all,
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> It looks good! Thanks, Neil.
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> 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.
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> BTW: Philippe Mongeon recently defended his dissertation successfully…
> everyone send him a big CONGRATS!
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> Best,
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> Tim
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> *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
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> 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:
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>    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?
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> 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.
>
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>
> Neil
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