[Gpdtc] [External] Draft merger agreement

[Alberto Accardi]

Yes: thank you, indeed!

Regarding the bridge position, securing Hampton's willingness to open one
is not guaranteed. In that sense isn't the language a bit too strong?
Perhaps something like "'[...] as such, we think Hampton U. is an ideal
target for funding, with the second choice [...]"

In general, the bullets read as a draft for an official document to be
agreed upon by the other half of the committee. Is that the intention? I
thought we wanted to present our ideas, not asking the others to agree on
pre-conditions, which is the way I fear they will read this document.

Anyway, it is curious to see Xiandong's name listed as an integral part of
the "Berkeley Lab" group, rather than a super-partes arbiter as he went out
of his way to position himself in the town meeting...  But I also agree
that, in practice, the other group is where he belongs.

Regards,

    Alberto

P.S.
I marked myself as available tomorrow in the poll, and I will do my best to
join even though I am not entirely sure I will be able to.



On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 6:19 PM Jianwei Qiu <jqiu at jlab.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I would like to second what Andreas said "Thank you very much, Ian,
> Martha, David and Christian!"
>
> This document covers all important issues that are needed to ensure a
> successful merge of two groups with well defined physics objectives and
> mechanism to achieve them.
>
> Since SC has only 8 people, the 75% is effectively saying that at least 6
> people are needed for any major changes of these guiding principles.  I
> think, this is a reasonable choice in view of the fact that each group has
> 4 people on SC.
>
> Best,
>
> Jianwei
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Gpdtc <gpdtc-bounces at jlab.org> on behalf of Andreas Metz <
> andreas.metz at temple.edu>
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 22, 2022 5:59 PM
> *To:* David Richards <dgr at jlab.org>; gpdtc at jlab.org <gpdtc at jlab.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Gpdtc] [External] Draft merger agreement
>
> Thank you very much, Ian, Martha, David and Christian!  In my opinion,
> this looks very good and covers the essential points in a concise manner.
>
> A minor point that I have is about item 10, the "75% majority vote."  I
> understand the rationale behind this but, at the present stage, such a rule
> may be perceived as quite bold by the other group.  Maybe there is a "safe"
> way to water this down a bit.?  But take a final decision on this as you
> see fit.
>
> Most likely I won't join tomorrow, but I have full confidence that the
> document will be finalized in the best way possible.
>
> Thank you again for your tremendous and very important work!
>
> Best wishes,
> Andreas
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Gpdtc <gpdtc-bounces at jlab.org> on behalf of David Richards <
> dgr at jlab.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 22, 2022 5:19 PM
> *To:* gpdtc at jlab.org <gpdtc at jlab.org>
> *Subject:* [External] [Gpdtc] Draft merger agreement
>
> Dear All,
>
> We have just had a long discussion to reach a consensus on the bullet
> points to present to Feng, Ismail, Phiala and Xiangdong in advance of a
> meeting we have arranged with them for 4pm on Monday.  We are currently
> refining the document, and expect to have that completed by 930am tomorrow
> morning.  Please take a look at that document, though please add comments
> below rather than altering the bullets as written.
>
> We aim to reach an agreement on this document tomorrow afternoon, and then
> present it as our collective bullet points to the other team to implement
> the merger.
>
> Please complete the “when2meet” for tomorrow afternoon at
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.when2meet.com_-3F14271198-2DYwZ4E&d=DwIFaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=O0ypPvcn8ZUcU42oKTSHzQ&m=evhKTl5RcxIZNdYb61yLMgUmWdFgsDFAejuwbYTeGUhns4Pii0ObCnPa0SVjadHK&s=-_xa8j0qlMjTEd1c-Xf64RgdDq8gT5kmsZXpTRVJhNI&e= 
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>  If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, and have
> comments, please place them at the end of the document, after the bullets.
>
> Regards,
> Ian, Martha, David and Christian
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