Re: ADASS BoF?

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:19:28 -0600

Rob Seaman wrote:
> We're about three months out from the Tucson ADASS meeting (http://
> www.adass.org:8080/Conferences/2006/Venue). We've discussed having
> a follow-up to last year's VOEvent BoF in San Lorenzo (can
> visualize the pseudo-packet announcement now). Given the slow
> summer season, we would be well advised to start deliberating (or,
> at least, pontificating) on this weighty question ASAP.
>
> One idea was to enlarge the focus to include HTN (http://
> www.telescope-networks.org/wiki/index.php/2nd_HTN_Workshop)
> issues. Perhaps call it the "Autonomous BoF".

I don't really know how much of the core HTN audience attends ADASS, they're generally more SPIE people.

> Comments? Co-organizer volunteers? Suggestions for agenda items?
> (LSST springs to mind.) And who intends to attend ADASS? Deadline
> for BoF proposals is 1 Sep.

At $325 registration fee and $155 a night for the hotel + airfare + tax and incidentals I'm probably looking at well over $2500 to attend, so unless someone wants to give me a boat load of money, I'm not going, I don't have budget for that...

Al.

PS. $155 + tax a night, for the hotel? Are they mad? Received on 2006-07-06Z19:28:16