[Fsatom-comm] Vacations are finished ? I. CECAM proposals

[Xavier Gonze]

Dear FSAtom committee members,

I hope that the time has come to start serious business
with the FSAtom !? Well, I hope enough people are back
to work, after a good vacation time ...

Let us first thank Miguel and Guillaume Truffin (CECAM
webmaster) for the Web site and mailing list manager !
They are working !
Let us also thank Konrad for the (experimental) Wiki,
that might become an important tool for our internal
organisation. By the way, I tried the wiki, and it
was working as expected : I was able to register
the ABINIT project on this Web site, without disturbing
Konrad.

Of course, we need to put more stuff in these
working (but nearly empty) tools, improve them,
then advertise
the project. Still, this is not the most urgent
task for us...

The main topics of my mail is the deadline for
proposals of workshop or tutorial to the CECAM !!

You know that the proposals should be sent to CECAM
before September 15, 2002. At the end of the
June workshop, we decided that there would likely
be two proposals from our group :
- one workshop on "Components", of which Glenn
  would be the main organizer (if I remember correctly ?!)
- one tutorial related to modern Computer Science
  tools, of which I would be the main organizer

... and one of my duties, as chairman of the group,
is to check that everything is going on as planned ...

So, I am still volunteering for the tutorial organisation.
If Glenn is also OK with this duty, everything is fine.

I guess both of us need some help from other co-organizers.
If I remember correctly, Laxmikant might join the tutorial
organization (and volunteer for some lecture on
parallelism, actually ?!).
Glenn, of course, has full freedom for the
organisation of the "component" workshop and choose
the co-organizers. Of course, building upon previous
proposals might considerably ease your work, so that
these are available to you, if you want.

On the other hand, Glenn, in case you cannot take this duty,
contact me, and we will try to reorient our strategy.
Please, could you do so before September 3 (otherwise,
we might not have enough time to prepare something different) ?

That's all for the CECAM proposals ...

Xavier