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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Dear CESG-All Members,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">As we prepare for the Fall 2025 Technical Meetings at the
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Hamburg University of Technology</a> (TUHH), the CCSDS Secretariat needs to compile a meeting schedule that will accommodate the needs of each Area, WG, BoF, or SSG who plan to meet in person.<b> The CCSDS Technical Meetings will be a 5 Day event from 15-19
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<div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Please keep the following events in mind when creating your schedule(s): During the afternoon of our first plenary
day, on Mon, 15 September, there will be a </b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><i><a name="x__Hlk142572256" id="LPlnk817646" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" style="margin: 0px;">Standards
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</a>On Wed, 17 September at 6PM, there will be a reception hosted by ESA.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The Secretariat believes it is best to poll the CESG-All to request the needs of each group that will be meeting. This will allow us to better schedule and assign rooms as well as virtual tools needed based on the
needs and number of participating.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">If you are a Chairperson, please respond to me by
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b>Monday, 28 July, 2025
</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">with the following information about your group's requirements (please follow the template shown):</span></p>
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<div role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; font-size: 11pt;">When would you like to meet?: 0845-1245, 0845-1730, 1230-1730 and days required (i.e. Mon-Wed, Mon-Fri, Tuesday only)</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; font-size: 11pt;">Estimate of the number of In-Person Attendees?: 25</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; font-size: 11pt;">All joint meetings need to be accounted for properly, therefore, please provide headcount numbers and names of the working groups who will be meeting together, as best as possible.</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Or</i>, if you anticipate your schedule will be remaining the same as your Spring 2025 meeting schedule, please advise. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The Secretariat will then process the requests and assign rooms based on the identified headcount needs as TUHH is able to provide conference/breakout rooms for each group. The plan is for online meeting registration
to be deployed early-August. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Please let me know if you have any questions. Looking forward to seeing you in September! </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Thank you,</span></p>
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