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Re: Current and Future Computing Commission Issues
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- From: David Watkin <david.watkin@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:01:34 +0100
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Ton, David I was not pointing a finger at anyone in particular, but if I had to, it would certainly not include David B. His vitality and enthusiasm in discussing cif issues is such as to almost make him viable as a one-man commission. However, I suspect that if Ton looks over the correspondance for the last 3 years, he might find that some other members have been less than hyper-active Best wishes D David Brown wrote: > Dear Ton, > > I suspect I am one of David W's political appointees to the Computing > Commission as my name was added by the Executive Committee. I believe > the reason was to make sure that there was communication between the > Commission and COMCIFS which they thought was in need of strengthening. > I notice that MS97 at Florence is a Commission Microsymposium on > programing for CIF and XML. In the last week or two there has been some > acitivity on the COMCIFS software developers discussion list stimulated > by James Hester which indicates that there are people interested in > advance programming for CIF. It would make more sense if one of these > people were to represent the CIF aspects of computing rather than me. > Herbert Bernstein is another person with much experience in this area > and I believe there are others such as John Westbrook with a wealth of > experience in programming for mmCIF > > I can understand Bill's concern to see more women active in the > Commissions, but computing is not one of the areas that seems to attract > women and I agree with David W that we need people who are active and > not just there to make the numbers look good. That said, the > Commissions do traditionally make an effort to keep a broad geographical > representation and it is important to maintain that breadth. Commission > members have to be able to function in English which immediately puts a > bias in favour of AngloSaxon countries. We need to hear the voices of > other parts of the world even if it means passing over some excellent > mainstream programmers from the UK or US. > > In short, I am willing to retire from the Commission, but the new > membership should include someone who has experience in advanced > programing for CIF and XML. > > Best wishes > > David > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > compcomm mailing list > compcomm@iucr.org > http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/compcomm _______________________________________________ compcomm mailing list compcomm@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/compcomm
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