Dear casperites, As we gradually emerge from the 2 year pandemic imposed hiatus of almost everything, this is a long overdue message to announce that I have taken over as chair of the CASPER advisory board from Jack Hickish. I want to take this opportunity to thank Jack for the years that he was the chair and all the fantastic work that he has done for CASPER.
We are also looking for nominations for some new members of the Advisory Board. We encourage diversity in membership in as many dimensions as feasible. Please submit nominations to me or to any of the other current Advisory Board members that you know. You can find the current members here: https://casper.berkeley.edu/index.php/about/casper-advisory-board/ A nomination should be accompanied by a brief motivation that at least includes the rationale for the nomination, and preferably sufficient information for the Advisory Board to make a decision. If necessary, we will seek additional information regarding nominees - either from the person who nominated them or via any other reasonable means. We are looking forward to the next workshop to be hosted in Sardinia from 5 - 9 September 2022 - hopefully many of us will be able to attend in person. As always, it bears reminding that CASPER is a collection of volunteers, often contributing to the collaboration in their personal capacity, after hours, over weekends, or whenever there is a spare moment. Please continue to respect this and be mindful of increasing the workload that these volunteers need to juggle. If you are in any doubt whatsoever about the code of conduct that is expected, you can read the document here: https://casper.berkeley.edu/index.php/code-of-conduct/ I welcome any input from the community, but please send it to me directly to respect the inboxes of everyone on the list. I will also try to keep communication to a minimum, while recognising we probably undershot that mark in recent months. I would also like to remind the community that we have a means of receiving anonymous information, should that be necessary, via a Google Form here: https://goo.gl/forms/u7rNWXrOfJc6DFcf2 On behalf of the CASPER Advisory Board, Francois -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAB4_c0qGvMmt6Sn1sc6EjGsJqtwxZutiDs09sbKC9gSnJMSd4g%40mail.gmail.com.
