[Cuga] UGBoD Meeting Minutes Posted- A message from John Arrington

[Lorelei Chopard]

Dear all,

Minutes from the UGBoD meeting have been posted on the Users' Group Wiki:
http://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki/index.php/UGBoD_Meetings

Items that may be of particular interested have been highlighted, and we 
have
also included some important items from the main Users' Group Meeting, for
those of you who were unable to attend.  Just a few brief items/reminders:

*The proposed modification for electing members to the UGBoD was approved
  by the Users Group at the last election and implemented by the Board.

*There are significant changes underway and coming with respect to users
  space.  Discussion of how to make sure that everyone has the space they
  need is underway, and we want to hear from you.  Expect a first-pass
  proposal to come out for comment in the near future.

*On the board's to-do list:  Any and all ideas are welcome!!
  - Develop a proposal for on-site mentoring for students/postdocs
  - Improve communication between the lab, the users group, the hall
    collaborations and the individual users, to keep people better 
informed.


And finally a couple random notes/reminders:

*A listing of hadronic physics conferences can be found at
http://cnr2.kent.edu/~manley/BRAGmeetings.html
  If you know of a meeting that should be included, please send the
  information to Mark Manly or myself.

*The deadline for proposing INT workshops is July 19th

*Many proceedings get published in journals which are not easily accessible
  and/or not indexed in SPIRES.  To make your work easier to find and 
access,
  I encourage everyone to submit proceedings to the arXiv preprint server.
  Have some old proceedings that aren't indexed or aren't freely available?
  There's no reason not to go ahead and submit the now.

*Same for papers which are published outside of normal 'nuclear physics'
  journals but which are of relevance to the community.  If your 'atomic
  physics' paper is important to the JLab community (polarized targets, the
  proton radius, fundamental symmetry tests), you can make sure we see it
  by ensuring that it's put on the arXiv, crossed referenced under nucl-ex.


On behalf of the UGBoD,
John