[J3] Virtual meetings through March

[Bill Long]

> On Sep 2, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Steve Lionel via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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> INCITS has directed that "all INCITS related meetings shall be virtual through to March 31, 2021. " So that covers not only our October meeting but also February. You should have seen my email yesterday regarding the June 2021 joint meeting in Manchester which is still on (at least for now.)

Hopefully we will be back to “normal” by October, 2021.  That is around the time the first set of Phase 3 vaccine trials are supposed to be done.    Maybe the beginning of November would be safer. 

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> I am concerned that only a few of you have even logged in to the discussion board I set up through the J3 site - we are using this in place of the traditional "subgroup" time for creating and discussing papers. We have seven work items that still need discussion and papers. Please don't leave this till the last minute! I'm not asking everyone to write papers, but at least lets start discussing the issues. US-17 in particular needs resolution as the edits failed due to growing discomfort with the syntax.

A symptom of the “day job” problem, I fear.   Perhaps sending an “assignment list” to each of the subgroup heads that spells out the expectations for their subgroup would kick things off. (Though I would note that Malcolm did already initiate a discussion for the October meeting).  Since this is mostly J3 work, it is perhaps more in Dan’s court to send out such assignments. 

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> If you have any problems accessing or using the discussion board (log in to the J3 site and click Discussions in the top menu, then log in using your j3-fortran.org credentials), let me know.
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> I've also been notified by SC22 that, due to a new ISO JTC1 policy, I need to create a new ISO "project" for F202X or else WG5 risks being disbanded! I have started work on that.

Thanks, we need that.  

Cheers,
Bill

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> Steve
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