Hello members of the FDC Advisory Group!
Happy New Year to you all! As you know, the Advisory Group will evaluate the first two year's of existence of the FDC and make recommendations to the Executive Director on how to proceed. The FDC staff would like to begin planning for the Advisory Group meeting, which will be in May 2014.
Based on your suggestion, and confirmed by the FDC, we would like to plan for a half-day of overlap with the FDC members themselves. The FDC deliberation timeline tight, and is likely to be held May 21-24. The location has not been confirmed, but is likely to be in Europe, quite possibly in Germany.
Therefore, we'd like to propose to you that the Advisory Group meeting be held on the 25-26 May (Sunday and Monday) in Europe (again, likely in Germany). We suggest two days, though you may feel more or less time is needed. Note that these dates overlap with the US holiday weekend (Memorial Day).
I have two requests for you:
1. Can you kindly confirm to me off-list whether you would be able to attend this meeting?
2. We would like to suggest a small group of AG members help the FDC staff (that is Anasuya, Winifred, and me) to plan the agenda and create a list of issues for the AG to address. Can you let me know if you'd like to join this group?
Please let me know if you have questions or concerns. Looking forward to your engagement on this work.
Many thanks to you all!
Katy