The 2025 on-line CF workshop: Choosing a date

[davidhassell]

Dear CF community,

Planning has started for the 2025 CF workshop, which this year will be an online-only event.

We'd like to hold the meeting some time during the seven weeks spanning Monday 1st September to Friday 17th October, but before settling on the exact dates it would be very useful to know of any other meetings in our wider community that are happening in that window, so that we can try to avoid those days and hopefully minimise people having to choose between meetings.

Fixing the dates for the meeting is clearly a priority and we are aiming to settle on the dates by the end of April, so please let us know very soon (by commenting on this issue) if you know of any possible clashes.

Many thanks for your help,

The organising committee (Ethan Davis, David Hassell, Daniel Lee,Lars Bärring, Sadie Bartholomew, Ellie Fisher, Luke Marsden, Alison Pamment, Antonio Cofiño, Kevin O’Brien)

[erget]

I'd be grateful if we could avoid a conflict with the EUMETSAT Conference, which takes place 15-19 Sep 2025!

[sebvi]

same dates as @erget for some of the 50th anniversary of ECMWF which includes:
Anniversary events in Bologna, Italy
15–19 September
In September, the following events will take place:

21st workshop on high performance computing in meteorology
Code for Earth
3rd ECMWF Destination Earth Annual Meeting
Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2025)

see here: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/stories/anniversary

[efisher008]

FYI. These fall on the following dates:

• 21st ECMWF workshop on high performance computing in meteorology - 15-19 September 2025
• Code for Earth 2025 - 16 September 2025
• 3rd ECMWF Destination Earth Annual Meeting - 16-17 September 2025
• UEF2025 - 15-18 September 2025

Meaning the week from Monday 15th - Friday 19th September should definitely be avoided (as @sebvi says).

[sadielbartholomew]

Please can we also try to avoid 9-11 September 2025 when the UK's annual conference for Research Software Engineering, RSECon(25), will be held, which I plan to attend.

[sadielbartholomew]

It is not strictly in the domain of the CF Conventions community, but many of us are in RSE or aligned roles and many of us from the UK, so there could easily be more than myself wanting to join.

[japamment]

Please can we also avoid 1st - 3rd October as these are earmarked for a JASMIN user conference which is likely to involve many CEDA staff and others from NCAS and NCEO.

[efisher008]

FYI. The NCEO staff conference is scheduled for the 3rd - 5th September so will likely involve some UK-based researchers.

[efisher008]

The Big Data from Space (BiDS 2025) conference will be taking place from 29th September - 3rd October, so it would be best to avoid that week if possible!