[cads] bounced note from Geoffrey

[Craig Lee]

So meeting outside GGF is perhaps not necessarily a bad thing if
it enables the group to make vibrant progress with a meeting cadence
and locations that meet the group's needs.  What are the group's needs?
Do they need standards or just community?  If they primariliy need
f2f time to do the necessary coordination, etc., this could be done
at other meetings, such as SC, rather than having to make "yet another
trip" to GGF.  What we do want to keep, however, is a strong connection
with the group; where they do come in and collaborate with GGF sessions,
etc., from time to time.  Does GCE have something against GGF, or is it
just that the GGF meeting cadence, etc., does not generally meet their needs?

--Craig

At 11:59 AM 11/21/2005, Julie Wulf-Knoerzer wrote:
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>>I note that portals meeting at GGF15 drew about 15 people (in a room
>>that could seat 100,000)
>>The portals workshop at SC05 (on the slightly unattractive friday) drew
>>60 people and its success I believe
>>is motivating that group to continue outside GGF next year with an SC06
>>workshop. Portals (GCE) is still
>>alive at GGF but it is not perhaps flourishing in the way we would like.
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>>In general we still are not attracting some of the (research)
>>communities that used to be at GGF.
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>>: Geoffrey Fox  gcf at indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org
>>: Phones Cell 812-219-4643  Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977
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