[Chep2021-iac] [EXTERNAL] Re: CHEP2022??

[Lucia Silvestris]

Dear Amber, Graham, all;

First of all, I would like to thanks Amber and the full team for 
organize this conference in a such difficult time.

I also support the move to 2022. In addition, as said by Marc will be 
very important that the different important computing conferences define 
their new schedule avoiding as much as possible overlap. So will be very 
important that the different organize committee work together to define 
new dates.

Themed virtual workshops in 2021 should be encouraged.

Let's hope that in between a COVID vaccine is discovered, produced and 
distributed worldwide, in a way that we can safety restart to travel and 
have the usual nice conferences in person.

Lucia
On 28/08/2020 15:28, Amber Boehnlein wrote:
>
> Dear CHEP IAC,
>
> Greetings!
>
> Jefferson Lab has a new events coordinator on staff, Anita Seay.  Her 
> first action was to negotiate with the hotels and the city of Norfolk 
> about the possibilities concerning CHEP2021.   The negotiating 
> position is much stronger now than in May.   The City of Norfolk and 
> the hotels are making a recommendation to the hotels’ corporate 
> offices of moving the conference without penalty to either Spring or 
> Fall of 2022 if we can sign a contract that commits to an event in 
> Norfolk in 2022 at the original number of attendees.
>
> This is not the standard process for selecting the next CHEP, I know. 
>  Unusual times call for unusual actions.  However, please let us know 
> if you concur or not with the prospective date change
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_BGiM1qxStCagGLeFA&d=DwIDaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=5DZHcMcight_dBsf2ORS9yIAvdeaeNcwHFyhjzgr2qo&m=pqausEZlorcMFreG7uEM-p4kLzQpHnjZgdW_U90qq-I&s=CdNzEPHyD_yNadTG5ZL4NHnPyDYXultGOxNJWbAvvc4&e=   If a quorum of you do, and the 
> corporate offices agree, Graham, Anita and I will submit an updated 
> proposal to this body and we can discuss dates.
>
> We can then discuss what to do about 2021 as well. I like the idea of 
> Regional virtual ‘CHEPinos’ with maybe some abbreviated ‘plenary’ format.
>
> The alternative is to proceed with the planning for an in-person 
> CHEP2021 for reasons I’ll explain when we next meet.
>
> Thank you so much, and we request a response by Sept 1.
>
> Amber and Graham
>
> Amber Boehnlein
>
> Computational Sciences and Technology Division Director
>
> CIO
>
> Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
>
> amber at jlab.org <mailto:amber at jlab.org>
>
> 7572697622
>
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