Virtual IVOA meeting - **Your attendance & input requested**

[Janet Evans]

Dear VO Community,

As follow-up to Chenzhou Cui’s March 10 email (attached below) with cancellation of the IVOA meeting in Sydney due to COVID-19, we would like to catch you up on plans for a virtual IVOA meeting on the original dates: May 4-8.

The meeting format will be via a shared remote service, and there will be mechanisms in place for commenting on presentations and continuing discussions.  We are planning to keep presentations short and save most of the time for your input and discussion.  

We will not attempt to reproduce the cancelled in-person meeting, but will focus on important topics that require discussion. So:

***We welcome inputs on topics that you think should be presented/discussed at the meeting.  Your input will drive the framework of our schedule!!  You can *reply to this email* with your topic and description. ***

It is our intent to balance meeting times with awareness of international time zones.  We will also keep and post notes from each session.  There will be a registration web page in a ~ 1 week’s time.  We expect followup discussions that will be scheduled after a session.

We ask that you stay tuned for details and to plan on the week of May 04 for some IVOA interaction!!

Best Regards,
-Janet & Pat
(for the IVOA TCG)

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Chenzhou Cui <ccz at bao.ac.cn>
> Subject: IVOA Interop May 2020 in Sydney is canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak
> Date: March 10, 2020 at 4:59:00 AM EDT
> To: interop at ivoa.net
> 
> Dear VO community,
> 
> Due to the current outbreak status of COVID-19 coronavirus around the world, it is very hard even if not impossible for us having a successful Interoperability meeting in May. After detailed discussion by the IVOA Exec, we decide to cancel the Sydney meeting which is planned from May 4th to 8th. We are very sorry for the inconveniences brought by the decision.
> 
> At the same time, the Exec decided to extend the time of Granada meeting in November to 4 or 5 days. The Exec suggests TCG and WGs/IGs organize a set of virtual meetings to compensate for the lack of the Sydney meeting.
> 
> We sincerely thank Simon O'Toole and his LOC team for their hard work on the Northern Spring Interop. We also thank Enrique Solano Marquez and his team for their support for the Granada meeting.
> 
> BTW, to support the LOC and logistics of the Granada meeting, some registration fee need be collected.
> 
> Sincerely Regards,
> 
> Chenzhou Cui and Bruce Graham
> 
> on behalf of the IVOA Exec
> 
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> Chenzhou Cui
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> Chinese Academy of Sciences       | FAX: +86-10-64888708
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