From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom9=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Sat Jan 2 16:13:07 2021 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom9 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom9@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id BDAEA9DB1DA; Sat, 2 Jan 2021 16:13:07 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org X-Greylist: delayed 487 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at www5.open-std.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 16:13:07 CET Received: from smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk (smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk [62.24.135.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75518358D8E for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2021 16:13:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([92.20.143.4]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id viSgk02Pid662viSgkB65R; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:04:58 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [92.20.143.4] Subject: Re: [J3] (SC22WG5.6317) June 2021 meeting To: WG5 List References: <20210101212345.1971E3568AC@www.open-std.org> From: John Reid Message-ID: <860d0c17-1cce-7306-728d-4f36bf8429f9@stfc.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 15:04:54 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210101212345.1971E3568AC@www.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfG0kko42yDA4dSfo61WRWY/qfkvVHjNire2sj8PSQ1m6fUvkMed2WmEbG78ysxcvMm6DoHxrxm04bQLau9a18YjdtuxWHp9dA6KgIify6CDzj8Ms0Wb7 SjeTslwt62l4kqrNuP17Jykq/Ep2vK6ZYz/gMEkDnMU2tm5JUGw7vDXrASmGq3Mtk/flfOzOlWG8nk8+Hn+gJWrCyqUleoktf6Q= Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Steve Lionel via J3 wrote: > > Well, we made it through 2020, though, sadly, almost two million > around the globe didn't due to the coronavirus. Here's hoping that > things start to improve in 2021. > > > Unfortunately, it seems that the world situation won't improve enough > for us to still hold the 2021 WG5 meeting in Manchester, England, as > planned. I've discussed this with Nathan (remember that Arm was to be > the host for this meeting) and he agrees that assuming everyone will > be able to travel to the UK for June is unreasonable. ISO rules > require 16 week notice for meetings, which is almost upon us. > Therefore, I have decided that the 2021 meeting will be virtual, held > over Zoom. J3 did this for the October 2020 meeting and it worked > remarkably well - J3 will be doing it again for February. > > > WG5, though, poses a higher obstacle regarding time zones. The October > meeting went from 1700-2000 Eastern time, which was 0600-0900 (the > next day) for Malcolm in Tokyo, and 2100-0000 for the couple of UK > folk who joined. If we picked the same times, that would be even an > hour later for Germany. The October J3 meeting was held over three > days (Monday-Wednesday), and we ran out of time. A poll I ran in the > J3 forum had four days of three hours each as the most popular option. > I welcome comments, especially from UK/Europe members, on timing. > Acually, it was 2200-0100 for the UK, but it was as OK. A bit of virtual jet lag, but not as much as from the real thing for a meeting in the US. We did have an HPC subgroup meeting at a decent time for me and everyone else  involved (no-one from Japan) -- we could do this again. Happy New Year to you all. My good news is that I have been given the Pfizer vaccine. John.