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Johari recommended a future PingER workshop later this year. This time it would be in a Peninsular Malaysia site hosted at either UTM or UM. Hanan at UTM has agreed to take the lead. We need to get 4 or 5 universities involved. We will need travel funding to fund Les. Les has provided his CV to assist in the paper work. This may be associated with a thesis review or something similar.
We need to set some dates. Anjum prefers it to be out of semester time but that is not critical. Les has a constraint starting July 12th through August 4th. Hanan may have a constraint early June. We need to get 4 or 5 universities involved. We will need travel funding to fund Les. Les has provided his CV to assist in the paper work. This may be associated with a thesis review or something similar Malaysia has a lot of public holiday. What is the period that we are looking at? (June - July?),
A quick list: 10th July to 8th August is fasting month (Ramadhan); 25.05.2013 - 09.06.2013 School Holiday in Malaysia.
Apart from that, if we target a lot of academician, then the best time would be during semester break, will get the dates for that.
Funding
Johari has submitted a proposal for FRGS (Fundamental Research Grant Scheme). There are 5 members of the proposal (5 is the max). Johari decided to get 2 more people from the group in UNIMAS to join the PingER project, thus we are unable to include our counterparts in UM and UTM (Dr Abdullah and Prof Hanan). We can go for a bigger project such as the eScience or LRGS (Long-term Research Grant Scheme) which can accommodate a larger number of people, more funding and encourage cross institutions collaboration.
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