<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Most of you must have already gotten this message. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I think the nuclear physics program at CLAS needs to pay particular attention to this issue, due to the extreme nature of how late most of those experiments were typically scheduled. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - Will</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Silvia Niccolai <<a href="mailto:silvia@jlab.org" class="">silvia@jlab.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">UGBoD issues for foreign users, PAC, jeopardy</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">January 8, 2016 at 8:31:33 AM GMT-3<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:dwatts1@ph.ed.ac.uk" class="">dwatts1@ph.ed.ac.uk</a>>, <<a href="mailto:kenneth.livingston@glasgow.ac.uk" class="">kenneth.livingston@glasgow.ac.uk</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mcontalb@fe.infn.it" class="">mcontalb@fe.infn.it</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mirazita@lnf.infn.it" class="">mirazita@lnf.infn.it</a>>, <<a href="mailto:devita@ge.infn.it" class="">devita@ge.infn.it</a>>, <<a href="mailto:annalisa.dangelo@roma2.infn.it" class="">annalisa.dangelo@roma2.infn.it</a>>, <<a href="mailto:sergpozd@jlab.org" class="">sergpozd@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:pogorelk@jlab.org" class="">pogorelk@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:wooyoung@jlab.org" class="">wooyoung@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:voutier@lpsc.in2p3.fr" class="">voutier@lpsc.in2p3.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mokeev@jlab.org" class="">mokeev@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:guidal@ipno.in2p3.fr" class="">guidal@ipno.in2p3.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:jacques.ball@cea.fr" class="">jacques.ball@cea.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:michel.garcon@cea.fr" class="">michel.garcon@cea.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:william.brooks@usm.cl" class="">william.brooks@usm.cl</a>>, <<a href="mailto:nerses@jlab.org" class="">nerses@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hkourkou@phys.uoa.gr" class="">hkourkou@phys.uoa.gr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:somov@jlab.org" class="">somov@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:ilarin@jlab.org" class="">ilarin@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:zisis@uregina.ca" class="">zisis@uregina.ca</a>>, <<a href="mailto:nikolenk@jlab.org" class="">nikolenk@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hibrahim@jlab.org" class="">hibrahim@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:franck.sabatie@cea.fr" class="">franck.sabatie@cea.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:lixm@jlab.org" class="">lixm@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mazouz@jlab.org" class="">mazouz@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:F.Dohrmann@fz-rossendorf.de" class="">F.Dohrmann@fz-rossendorf.de</a>>, <<a href="mailto:vignote@jlab.org" class="">vignote@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:friedman@jlab.org" class="">friedman@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:luhj@jlab.org" class="">luhj@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:deleo@jlab.org" class="">deleo@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mammolit@jlab.org" class="">mammolit@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:cisbani@jlab.org" class="">cisbani@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:xchen@jlab.org" class="">xchen@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:munoz@ipno.in2p3.fr" class="">munoz@ipno.in2p3.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:voutier@lpsc.in2p3.fr" class="">voutier@lpsc.in2p3.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:miham@jlab.org" class="">miham@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:glamazdi@jlab.org" class="">glamazdi@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:psorokin@kipt.kharkov.ua" class="">psorokin@kipt.kharkov.ua</a>>, <<a href="mailto:qattan@jlab.org" class="">qattan@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hubt@jlab.org" class="">hubt@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:bertin@jlab.org" class="">bertin@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:abeck@jlab.org" class="">abeck@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:templon@jlab.org" class="">templon@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:slavak@jlab.org" class="">slavak@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:semenov@jlab.org" class="">semenov@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:danez@jlab.org" class="">danez@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:singhj@jlab.org" class="">singhj@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:eip@jlab.org" class="">eip@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:kouichi@thkln1.ins.tohoku.ac.jp" class="">kouichi@thkln1.ins.tohoku.ac.jp</a>>, <<a href="mailto:xiaozg@tsinghua.edu.cn" class="">xiaozg@tsinghua.edu.cn</a>>, <<a href="mailto:juaky@jlab.org" class="">juaky@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:depersif@jlab.org" class="">depersif@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:fissum@jlab.org" class="">fissum@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:crowder@jlab.org" class="">crowder@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:szh@jlab.org" class="">szh@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hamlet@jlab.org" class="">hamlet@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:semenov@jlab.org" class="">semenov@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:smacewan@jlab.org" class="">smacewan@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:aasatury@jlab.org" class="">aasatury@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hashimot@jlab.org" class="">hashimot@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:xshen@jlab.org" class="">xshen@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:fengj@jlab.org" class="">fengj@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hlu@jlab.org" class="">hlu@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:androic@jlab.org" class="">androic@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:vmrodrig@jlab.org" class="">vmrodrig@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:cusanno@jlab.org" class="">cusanno@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:guido.maria.urciuoli@roma1.infn.it" class="">guido.maria.urciuoli@roma1.infn.it</a>>, <<a href="mailto:marrone@jlab.org" class="">marrone@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:patrick@jlab.org" class="">patrick@jlab.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:dupre@ipno.in2p3.fr" class="">dupre@ipno.in2p3.fr</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">Dear institution representatives for JLab foreign users,<br class="">on January 14th we'll have the meeting of the Users Group Board of Directors, and I'll be reporting on the situation of foreign users.<br class="">I would like to encourage you to contact me to bring up any problems or items that you think should be discussed in the board.<br class=""><br class="">Among the items in agenda for our meeting are the definition of the rules for the jeopardy process in the 12-GeV era (namely "When should it begin?,"What should be the criteria for an experiment to qualify for the Jeopardy category?"), and other issues, such as the "Run-groups" organization for the PAC, and users engagement in the EIC project.<br class=""><br class="">It would be great if you'd like to share with me your opinions on these specific issues so that I can defend the view of foreign users within the board.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you very much and best regards,<br class="">Silvia<br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>