==== Telecon Notes ====

November 29, 2007, 3pm EDT 

Some of the information posted here came by e-mail after telecon. 

== Status of NASA Proposal ==
  * Eric reports that about 40 proposals have been submitted. 
  * NASA plans to finish review process by mid-end February, with money available shortly after
  * Steve reports that our proposal had a total budget of $1.6M (about 10 sub-contracts). 
  * People point out that workshop dates needs to be advertised very soon, particularly for the first two workshops. The technology workshop, which is the last one, already has a scheduled date: the last week of August. 

== Aspen Workshop ==
  * No program is yet available.
  * Shaul has reserved a slot to discuss the goal and work of the PPPDT.
  * The talk will be combined with a presentation about the work planned under the NASA grant.
  * Non of the people attending the telecon had firm plans to attend the workshop, so Shaul is currently scheduled to deliver the talk. This may change. 
 
== Bennett's Suggesion ==
  * Positive feedback to the idea all around. 
  * Scott Dodelson who is the organizer of the theory workshop, and perhaps others in the theory team should attend these telecons. 
  * Idea can be extended to having periodic informal discussions of other topics that are related to the decadal panel report in the PPPDT telecon.

== Next telecon == 
  * Many of us are meeting in Washington, either by phone or in person, in about 10 days. Everyone is invited to attend. 
  * There may be a telecon on Dec. 20. An e-mail will be distributed ahead of time. Otherwise, next telecon is in 2008.