[CMC] RE: CCSDS Meeting Rotation (proposed)

[Soula Jean-Marc]

Dear Mike

old or new do not make a difference for CNES as a host.

I support the Spring meetings in the USA, at the beginning of our budget year, while the Fall meetings could be maintained at the beginning of your budget year.

Concerning observers, I would support travels to locations of active agencies so that they are invited to continue / increase participation. Not to locations of non active agencies, with the hope that they may embark on CCSDS: too expensive a bet.
This should be debated in a telco or meeting, not too much via email.

Best regards


Jean-Marc Soula
CNES - DCT/OP/C-STA
Advisor, GN Operations
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De : cmc-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org [mailto:cmc-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] De la part de Kearney, Mike W. (MSFC-EO01)
Envoyé : mercredi 29 mai 2013 01:02
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Objet : [CMC] CCSDS Meeting Rotation (proposed)

Dear CMC members:  I had an action out of our Bordeaux meeting to come up with a new rotation that proposed the switch NASA-hosted meetings to the Spring, and other agencies' hosting to the Fall.  The Spreadsheet is attached.  Notice the tabs at the bottom...  "New" is the new proposal (not yet confirmed) and "Original" is the current rotation.  There is a summary and a rotation spreadsheet for each.

The new rotation depends on ASI's ability to host the Fall 2014 Technical and CMC meetings.  ASI/Massimo has been working on those arrangements, but they are not yet confirmed.

Also, not that this moves some other agency hostings earlier.  Please review and let us know if your agency has any problems with this proposed new meeting rotation.

Since we are reviewing our meeting plans, here are some things to think about, for discussion at our next telecon.

The Observer Agency column is blank.  We have advocated in the past that we should organize occasional CMC meeting at observer agency sites, in order to gain more attention of their management, and hence solicit more participation.  That approach is not factored in to this schedule.

So I looked at the Observer agency list and made some observations on which observer agencies might be a strategic choice for soliciting more participation.

KARI/Korea might be a candidate.  I believe the SpaceOps 2016 conference is being held in Korea, but that will be in the spring, and assuming we achieve our goal of shifting the US meeting to the Spring, we wouldn't have a "split" technical/management meeting at that time.  But we could make an exception that spring and do it to encourage more KARI participation.  We would have the CMC either immediately before or immediately after the SpaceOps Conference (Schedule TBD).

Other possible candidates for hosting a CMC meeting are:
ASA/Austria
BFSPO/Belgium
CSIR/South Africa
CSIRO/Australia
DNSC/Denmark
GISTDA/Thailand
HNSC/Greece
ISRO/India
NSPO/Taipei
TUBITAK/Turkey

ISRO/India might be a candidate, to encourage them to ramp back up to a higher level of participation and then (later) resume full member status.   However, most of the South/SouthEast Asia locations would incur a heavy travel burden expense and possibly poorer attendance.

Greece last hosted the *entire* technical plenary and management meetings in 2005 (along with the OMG).  It might be interesting to see if they could do the same for the Technical Plenary, since the Athens meetings, as I recall, worked out pretty well.  This could be an opportunity for ESA to postpone one of their technical meeting hostings for a year.

So, those are just some thoughts that we can discuss at our upcoming CMC telecon.

   -=- Mike

Mike Kearney
Lead Technology Manager
Mission Operations Laboratory
NASA MSFC EO-01
+1-256-544-2029

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience."
                                         - ADM Hyman G. Rickover

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