[Gpdtc] Fw: Re: [EXTERNAL] Coordinating committee

[Cloet, Ian C.]

Hi Everyone,

A positive step from Xiangdong, Feng, et al.

Cheers, Ian




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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:30:22 -0500
From: Xiangdong Ji <xji at umd.edu>
To: David Richards <dgr at jlab.org>
Cc: "Cloet, Ian C." <icloet at anl.gov>, Christian Weiss <weiss at jlab.org>, Phiala Shanahan <pshana at mit.edu>,  Feng Yuan <fyuan at lbl.gov>, Martha Constantinou <marthac at temple.edu>, Ismail Zahed <ismailzahed at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Coordinating committee


hi, David et al,
 No problem, we can wait for your key points.
 Maybe Feng can help send around a doodle poll to find the next meeting
time.
 Cheers

Xiangdong

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 8:16 AM David Richards <dgr at jlab.org> wrote:

> Dear Feng, Ismail, Phiala, and Xiangdong,
>
> Thanks for the discussion on Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday evening we
> conveyed the details of this meeting to our group and discussed how to best
> proceed toward an effective merger. We all see the significant scientific
> benefits of bringing our groups together but we feel we need to bring our
> team with us during this process.
>
> As a next step we think our two groups need to reach agreement on some key
> points that we view as essential for a strong proposal. Our group is
> currently drafting and discussing these "bullet points" and we will send
> them to you no later than Monday morning (24 Jan). We think that if our
> groups can arrive at a consensus on these points then a merger into a
> strong unified team can straightforwardly take place.
>
> We propose that we reschedule today's meeting to sometime early next week.
> Once you and your group have had time to consider our key points we will be
> very happy to schedule a discussion as early as possible.
>
> We realize this delays a merger by a few days, however, we see significant
> benefit to this process, which we think will lead to a stronger proposal
> and a more unified team. We look forward to discussing with you next week
> and hopefully taking the final steps to merging our teams.
>
> Regards,
> Ian, Martha, David, and Christian
>
>