NOBUGS International Advisory Committee

NOBUGS Terms of Reference

The term NOBUGS is a shorthand for "New Opportunities for Better User Group Software". The aim of this body is to foster the collaboration between scientists and IT professionals working for photon, muon and neutron user facilities. The intended benefit of this collaboration is better data acquisition and analysis software which helps users to get the most out of their experiments at such expensive facilities. The activities of the NOBUGS group focus on:

• The organisation of the NOBUGS Conference every two years
• Fostering discussions and collaborations between facilities on software projects
• Act as a lobbying body for better scientific software

Purpose

The committee agrees and recommends a programme for the NOBUGS conferences to provide a balanced overview of important topics and developments covering all types of IT projects relevant to photon, muon and neutron user facilities.

Committee members provide a link between facilities to initiate discussions and collaborations.

Membership

The NOBUGS International Advisory Committee strives to include exactly one individual as representative for each major photon, muon or neutron user facility. New members can be nominated from attendees of the NOBUGS conference and should be confirmed in the conference's NOBUGS International Advisory Committee meeting.

The membership term is not limited. However, if a member of the NOBUGS International Advisory Committee fails to attend two successive NOBUGS conferences the membership in the NOBUGS International Advisory Committee will automatically expire. Each NOBUGS International Advisory Committee member can nominate a substitute to attend a particular meeting or conference.

Procedures

The committee conducts its business either electronically or through meetings. Committee meetings occur during NOBUGS conferences. The NOBUGS International Advisory Committee appoints one officer, the chairman. The chairman's task is to oversee deliberations. The chairman's term of service is two years.

The NOBUGS International Advisory Committee tasks a local organizing committee with the organization of a NOBUGS conference.

The Advisory Committee and the local organisers jointly decide on the key topics and other important parameters of the upcoming conference. The local organizing committee compiles a conference programme from the abstracts submitted for presentation at the conference. During the programme compilation phase the NOBUGS International Organizing Committee is to be involved through its mailing list.

Committee Members

Armando Sole	ESRF, France
Peter Peterson	SNS, USA
Toshiya Otomo	KEK, Japan
Freddie Akeroyd	STFC-ISIS, United Kingdom
Thorsten Kracht	DESY, Germany
Joachim Wuttke	JCNS, Germany
Nicholas Schwarz (Chair)	APS, USA
Roberto Borghes	Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
John Skinner	Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Alun Ashton	Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom
Nick Hauser	ANSTO, Australia
Tobias Richter	European Spallation Source, Scandinavia
Mark Koennecke	Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Majid Ounsy	Soleil, France
Guifré Cuní	ALBA, Spain
Tomohiro Matusita	RIKEN/Spring-8, Japan
Deon Marais	Necsa, South Africa
Junrong Zhang	CSNS, China
Sandor Brockhauser	European XFEL, Germany

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