The Ombuds Blog: Cal Caucus Planners Seek Input

March 23, 2009

Cal Caucus Planners Seek Input

The organizers of the annual California Caucus at Asilomar are surveying their colleagues to determine the potential demand for their next gathering set for November 8-11, 2009. Lewis Redding, the JPL Ombuds and Asilomar organizer, acknowledges that many institutions “have caught a significant case of economic flu,” and hopes for an early read on how many might attend and for input on programming. Click on the images on the right to download the survey, and then email your responses to lewis [dot] a [dot] redding [at-sign] jpl [dot] nasa [dot] gov.

Related posts: Cal Caucus Annual Conference in Pacific Grove (2007); Details of 35th Annual Cal Caucus (2008).

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March 23, 2009

Cal Caucus Planners Seek Input

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