Minutes of the June 14-16, 2007 CLAS Collaboration Meeting

	The agenda, together with the ppt or pdf files for all the 
talks, are available on the web. I will not summarize the talks here, 
but report some elements of discussion.

* Publications:
	Still very healthy stream of reviews and publication flowing.

* Completed and on-going PhD work:
	Please check the info available on
	http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/general/clas_thesis.html
and send the chairman an e-mail for any update and/or link to the written
document. 

* High energy operation:
	See Hari Areti's slides. Schedule unchanged since last time for
operation at 5.7 GeV should occur Fall 07, and at 6 GeV Fall 08.

* CLAS Approved Analyses
	The 2 CAA presented were approved.

* PAC32:
	Two proposals and a LoI were presented. The proposals were
well advanced (and based on earlier LoIs which had received a very
warm answer at PAC30). The written proposals were then reviewed
by 1 or 2 reviewers in each PWG before submission on June 20.
	
* New Chair:
	After e-mail vote, vote by bulletins on Thursday, and extended
e-mail vote until June 18, David Tesdeschi was elected as the next CLAS
Collaboration Chair, effective September 1st, 2007.

* Full Members:
	Dan Dale and Tony Forest, after a vote, are now
	full members of our collaboration.
	
* CLAS vs CLAS12:
	Both at the Membership Committee when discussing new collaborators
entering probation for term membership, and during the plenary session when
discussing the application of new full members, some concerns were expressed
about collaborators listing as anticipated service work "only" CLAS12 related
work. The concerns are two-fold: is the needed service work for CLAS
being done, overall? and should CLAS12 work authorize authorship on CLAS papers?
	Several collaborators (including your present Chair) think the
transition from CLAS to CLAS12 should be as smooth as possible, and thus
keeping common rules for all. But the questions raised are valid ones
which will be addressed. Let me recall for example that service work
for CLAS12 was 12% of total service work in 2006, and is anticipated
to be 25% this year: this is a bearable fraction, but to be monitored closely.
	After the meeting, I decided that these concerns should be discussed 
at a next CCC phone conference, between now and the next collaboration meeting,
with the participation of Membership Committee Chair, Service Work Committee 
Chair, CLAS12 Steering Committee Chair, ending and starting Collaboration 
Chairs.

* Calibration/analysis work, OTWG
	Will Brooks presented his views on the way we perform calibrations
(by run group, as indicated in our by-laws), indicating what we could/would 
gain if there was a dedicated group (institution or group of institutions) 
working on a given calibration, for all on-going experiments. Pros and cons 
were discussed in the plenary session. If such a dedicated group could be 
identified for a given task, then why not?
	Latifa Eloudrhiri is stepping out of the Off-line Technical Working
Group Chair, because of lack of time. A transitory solution is being worked out.
The run-group analysis coordinators should be consulted more systematically
on priorities, and, work force permitting, the OTWG should extend its
job to unifying given analysis tasks (for example, fiducial cuts, particle
id,...).

* Attendance overall (in both plenary and PWG sessions) was somewhat lower
this time (but still very lively !).

* Next collaboration meeting: November 1-3, 2007.