[Gpdtc] Topical Collaboration......

[David Richards]

Dear All,

There has been an email exchange within CNF (so Xiangdong, Bob, Latifa, Simonetta and myself) following the announcement of about the topical collaboration on GPDs.  Bottom line is in Xiangdong’s email below:

> hi David, and all, 
>   The mission of CNF is to promote GPD and femtography physics. Giving
> the field has been quite sluggish, success of a topical collaboration on this
> subject  is very important. I am more concerned with a strong proposal, 
> less about from which national lab going out.   
>   Therefore, I propose to call a meeting next week around Wednesday perhaps,
> inviting everyone who might be interested, and having people to talk about their 
> ideas that may have been crystalized, with the goal to put together  the strongest 
> proposal possible for GPD and femtography physics. 
>    I will prepare a list of people to be invited,  circulating around over the weekend, 
> targeting sending out invitations on Sunday night. 
>   Cheers
> Xiangdong  
>   

He wanted to send out invitations for a meeting next Wednesday as per the above.  We have a strong effort, and are putting together a strong team, so I do not see there is a conflict between this and what we are proposing - in particular it has to be a focused and “temporary” effort addressing a particular problem.  I was going to suggest the following:

- Note that the TC call is indeed a good opportunity, and it is very encouraging there is so much interest.
- Respond that we were having a meeting next Thursday morning.
- Say that I will forward the invitation to this email list, noting that it was pretty hard to find a common time this coming week.

Seem reasonable?

David