Minutes of the March 1-3, 2007 CLAS Collaboration Meeting

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

* Publications:
	Very healthy stream of reviews and publication flowing.
	
* Review and submission process (after PWG approval):
	- Author and/or PWG CHair forwards PWG review committee report
	and approval to Coll. Chair
		- Coll. Chair nomminates ad hoc committee
	- Author puts draft paper, analysis note and all relevant review 
	comments on cals secure web page
			- Ad Hoc Chair reports to Coll. Chair
		- Coll. Chair launches collaboration wide review
	- Author answers all comments with cc to clascomment@jlab.org
	- Author does not modify the posted draft during the posted
	period for the collaboration wide review
	- Author signals collaborators who made comments, ad hoc Chair
	and Coll. Chair when final draft is ready
			- Ad hoc committee checks that all comments have
			been properly addressed and reports to Coll. Chair
	- Numerical results must by then have been entered in the CLAS
	data base
		- Coll. Chair gives submission green light.
	- Author submits to Journal and to arXiv, the latter with
	mention "CLAS collaboration". These two steps must be done within
	1-2 days of each other (not more), in whichever order is preferred
	by the author (CCC prefers Journal then arXiv).
	- Author informs Coll. Chair
		- Coll. Chair informs the collaboration
	- Author informs Coll. Chair of any significant changes resulting 
	from the refereeinf process
	- Author informs Coll. Chair about acceptance
		- Coll. Chair informs the collaboration
	- Author informs Coll. Chair about publication
		- Coll. Chair informs the collaboration
		
* (Draft) Analysis Notes under PWG review must be accessible to all
	collaborators on the CLAS secure web site.
	

* 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 Mike Spata's slides. Operation at 5.7 GeV should occur
Fall 07, and at 6 GeV Fall 08.

* CLAS Approved Analyses
	The 1 CAA presented was approved.

* PAC32:
	12 GeV proposals were not identified for sure yet.
	The report on Transverse Polarized Target proposal (see H. Avakian's
	slides) may not be followed by a proposal at this time.
	Otherwise, there were LoI at PAC30 which may be followed
	by proposals.
	Proposal submission deadline: June 20.
	
* Christoph Leemann gave us an update on the budget situation (see his
	slide). The 12 GeV upgrade funding was kept at anticipated level,
	but the operations for this year had to be cut down.
	
* Full Members:
	Volker Crede and Silvia Niccolai, after a vote, are now
	full members of our collaboration.
	
* New CLAS speaker committee member:
	Reinhard Schumacher was nomminated by the CCC, as CSC alternate
	member at large.
	
* The CLAS Chair term is ending next summer. Elections will be
	held at the June meeting. A nomminating committee composed
	of M. Ripani, S. Stepanyan and L. Weinstein is in charge
	of identifying at least two candidates. Feel free to contact
	them for suggestions or self-nomminations.
	
* Next collaboration meeting: June 14-16, 2007.
	 There will be no organized CLAS12 technical working group
	 parallel meetings; it will be up to each group to see
	 the opportunity of a meeting on June 13.
	 Reminder: the Users Group meeting will take place at JLab
	 on June 18-20.