[J3] [EXTERNAL] All face to face INCITS or US-hosted ISO meetings cancelled for the rest of 2020

[Van Snyder]

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 22:55 -0700, Bryce Adelstein Lelbach aka wash via
J3 wrote:
> Hello Fortran folks,
> INCITS has cancelled all face to face meetings of INCITS committees
> and US hosted ISO meetings for the rest of the year. Just wanted to
> give y'all a heads up as I didn't see a post to your mailing lists
> about this yet.

Is INCITS going to extend our membership? We've canceled two meetings
so far this year. I'll be retired, and my membership expired before the
next meeting. It would be nice to be able to go to two meetings next
year in place of two this year that INCITS canceled.
> P.S. I suspect it would be prudent to ensure that any US meeting
> plans for early 2021 to consider contingencies; for example,
> deferring non-refundable expenses for as long as possible.
> 
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> Bryce Adelstein Lelbach aka wash
> US Programming Language Standards (PL22) Chair
> ISO C++ Library Evolution Chair
> CppCon and C++Now Program Chair
> CUDA Core C++ Libraries (Thrust, CUB, libcu++) Lead @ NVIDIA
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> From: Lynn Barra <lbarra at itic.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 10:17
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> To: 'incits-officers at standards.incits.org'
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> Subject: [incits-officers] UPDATED: Notice Regarding INCITS Meetings
> - Now Virtual through December 31, 2020
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> To INCITS Officers –
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> This notice is a follow up to previous correspondence of April 27th
> sent to INCITS officers regarding
> meetings for INCITS Technical Committees, Task Groups and Ad Hocs.
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> At their May 18, 2020 meeting, the INCITS Executive Board discussed
> the current requirement for all INCITS meetings to be held virtually
> through July 31, 2020. It was noted that there are currently several
> TCs that have
>  in-person or mixed-mode meetings on the calendar for later this
> year.  
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> For the safety and health of all, and to allow adequate time for
> planning and rescheduling, the Executive Board has extended the
> requirement that all INCITS related meetings shall be virtual through
> to December 31, 2020.
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> Chairman are asked to ensure that their committee calendar details
> are up-to-date to reflect this information.
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> As a reminder, the frequency of the virtual meetings should be such
> as to allow committees to be productive and conduct business
> sufficient to meet the
>  workload. Please keep in mind the requirements for posting meeting
> notices and agendas, as excerpted below from the
> INCITS Organization, Polices and Procedures:
> 5.1.2       
> Meeting Notice and Draft Agenda
> Meeting
> notices for all IOEs, except Ad Hocs,
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> be distributed
> no later
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> four
> weeks
> prior to face-to-face
> meetings and no later than two weeks prior to electronic meetings.
> All meeting notices
>  shall be posted and distributed using the committee calendar in
> ICMS. The draft agenda for all IOEs, except Ad Hocs, shall be
> distributed no later than two weeks prior to the meeting.
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> Zoom Accounts –
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> If your TC or TG has not been assigned a Zoom account so you can
> offer dial-in meeting access, and you would like one, please contact
> the INCITS Secretariat. Note: After May
>  30, only Zoom clients on version 5.0 or higher, including Zoom
> Rooms, will be able to join Zoom Meetings.
> Those attempting to  join a meeting with non-upgraded Zoom software
> will be required to carry out the upgrade before joining meetings.
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> If you have
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> questions, please contact the INCITS Secretariat.
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> Regards-
> Lynn
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