<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;">Hi HEIG Folks,</b></div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;"><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;"><br></b></div>See Simon’s declaration below!!!! </b><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;">We succeeded in becoming an IVOA HE IG!!!! </b></div><div><b><font face="Calibri-Bold">Our collective hard work has paid off — now the ‘real’ work begins!!!</font></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;">The announcement will be tomorrow at the closing…this is a sneak peak cause I’m on the Exec list!!</b></div><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;"><br></b></div><div><div><font face="Calibri-Bold"><b>Congrats to all !!! </b></font></div></div><div><font face="Calibri-Bold"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Calibri-Bold"><b>Cheers,</b></font></div><div><b style="font-family: Calibri-Bold;"> - janet</b><br><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Simon O'Toole via exec" <exec@ivoa.net><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Re: Re: High Energy Interest Group charter</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">November 16, 2024 at 4:48:38 PM GMT+1<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IVOA exec <exec@ivoa.net><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Simon O'Toole" <simon.otoole@mq.edu.au><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>I am happy to declare the High Energy Interest Group approved! I will announce this in my closing remarks tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span>Simon<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>