IA-FraMCoS Newsletter from May 2013.
At the Board of Directors meeting in Toledo (March 2013) it was decided that all participants at FraMCoS 6, 7 and 8 were de facto members. As such, I created a FraMCoS group (within Google) and sent just under 1,000 invitations to those conference participants to join and become “official members”. About 210 responded positively, and this first newsletter is being addressed to you in order to bring you up to date with some of the latest developments of your organization. WEB SITE One of my first projects was to develop a web site for the organization (as opposed to individual conference). I invite you to consult it, as it contains a wealth of information: PROCEEDINGS All the papers presented in FraMCoS 8, 7 and 6 (more coming), that is about 800 papers are available as individual pdfs. To facilitate your search, there is an internal Google Search Engine (and a translator :‐ ) WORKSHOPS The board agreed that we should be more present during the three years separating one conference from another. As such, local or thematic workshops will be either offered or sponsored by FraMCoS. Already one such (sponsored) workshop is planned for December 2013. I am asking all workshop organizers to make sure that presentations will be uploaded to our web site for the benefit of others. DATA REPOSITORY Inspired by NEES, I am creating a repository where researchers could share with others experimental data, and/or input data files, and results of analysis they performed. Those files could in turn be downloaded and benefit a much broader audience. Board of Advisor member Prof. Chandra Kishen has offered to help in this task. MINUTES/ARCHIVES/STATISTICS In these pages you will find minutes of the Board of Directors and General Assembly meetings. You could also access the “Archive” section which contains some historical document, or the “Statistics” section which lists all the key facts associated with each of the previous 8 conferences. FINANCES Thanks are extended to our Treasurer, Prof.