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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">This November/December, MEDIN will be holding its seventh <span class="x_marke83z8x7df" style="margin:0px">Joint Working Group meeting</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>(the
MEDIN Mega Meeting!) to bring together the expertise from its various working groups to discuss issues that cut across all the groups. I am currently trying to pin down some dates to hold a virtual meeting and would be grateful if you could let me know your
availability using the DoodlePoll<span style="margin:0px"> <a href="https://doodle.com/poll/6m7x4rhgb8d7y2pz?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link" style="margin:0px">https://doodle.com/poll/6m7x4rhgb8d7y2pz?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link</a></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">As in previous years, we hope to bookend the<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_marke83z8x7df" style="margin:0px">Joint Working Group meeting</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>(the
Mega meeting) with the regular Data Archive Centre (DAC) and Standards Working Group meetings (and possibly also meetings of the Resources and Applications, Portal and Historic Environment groups) , so I’ll try to make sure that this will be feasible with
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Depending on people’s availability, the proposed schedule will be:</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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