<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After some discussion at WSSSPE4 and a bit of follow-uo discussion to incorporate feedback, we have an initial public draft WSSSPE Mission and Vision Statement:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/WSSSPE/mission-vision" class="">https://github.com/WSSSPE/mission-vision</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your feedback and comments are welcome, ideally as github issues in this repository</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks to Lorraine Hwang for getting this going and leading the discussion about it at WSSSPE4.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Dan</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">-- </span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Daniel S. Katz</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications, NCSA</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Research Associate Professor, ECE</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Research Associate Professor</font><span class="" style="font-family: Courier;">, iSchool</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">University of Illinois</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier" class="">(217) 244-8000</font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><a href="mailto:d.katz@ieee.org" class="" target="_blank" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">d.katz@ieee.org</a><span class="" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> or </span><font face="Courier" class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="mailto:dskatz@illinois.edu" class="">dskatz@illinois.edu</a></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><a href="http://danielskatz.org/" class="" style="font-family: Courier;">http://danielskatz.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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