[Insight-developers] Who's going to be at Vis2000?

[Terry S. Yoo]

Hello all:

Bill Lorensen and I were discussing the state of Insight matters
during a recent NIH workshop here in Bethesda.  His comment was that
we really needed an additional coordination meeting this Fall.
I suggest that we meet to exchange information.  This is not a design
meeting, so votes will not be binding.  Any design decisions will be
referred to a subcommittee including P.I.s for approval.

I propose that we create a non-mandatory meeting in Salt Lake City
during the IEEE Visualization 2000 conference.  This is for those
people who are already attending that conference or for those who want
an excuse to go.  The meeting runs from Sunday 8 October through
Friday 13 October.  The ACM Symposium on Volume Visualization runs
concurrently with Vis Tutorials on Monday and Tuesday.  InfoVis also
runs concurrently during that time.  Information for the conference
is available online at:

    http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis00/

The proposed (non-mandatory) meeting vital statistics:
    What: Insight Developers Informational Meeting
    Date: Tuesday, 10 October 2000
    Time: 7:30-9:00
    Place: the Hilton Salt Lake City Center (room TBA)

    Early registration deadline for the conference is 18 September.

The time was chosen so as not to conflict with either the symposium/
tutorial reception, the conference reception, or the site tour of the
University of Utah.

Please, e-mail me directly (yoo at nlm.nih.gov) if you wish to attend.
DO NOT reply to the insight-developers mailing list.  Negative replies
are neither required nor desired.  Reply soon, and I will assess the
likely size of the meeting.  I'd like to confirm the meeting with
plenty of time for everyone to get early registration discounts and
discounted airfares.

Thanks for a prompt reply!

Terry


PS: Apologies to those who find this additional meeting something of
    a burden.  It is intended as a courtesy only to provide a forum for
    information exchange.  We really did need an additional coordination
    meeting this Fall.  I was hestitant to commit contract funds to meetings
    when I'd rather have them dedicated to programming and research.  

    However, we are still early in the life of the collaboration/consortium,
    and a meeting to exchange ideas and status information will help.
    Most especially, there has been a lot of traffic on the build process
    and the state of the base classes.  It would be nice to have a meeting
    to go over where we are.

    Consortium decisions are not expected at this meeting.  P.I.'s are
    not required.  Information exchange is the purpose of the meeting.

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Terry S. Yoo, Ph.D.
National Library of Medicine                    National Institutes of Health
High Performance Computing and Communications                 yoo at nlm.nih.gov
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