Dear All, A few people have asked for a special meeting of the Physics Departmental Computing Committee to discuss the ICT reforms. Also I believe that there is a FoNS HoDs meeting first thing on Tuesday and so if we are to give any feedback to this grouping we need to put it together tomorrow. Some points: 1. Whatever our personal feeling are about friends potentially loosing their jobs in ICT (and I suspect that I have more friends in ICT than most of you) this is not the business of this committee. The sole business of this committee is how this will effect physics - our teaching and our research (and our admin). 2. There are significant members of our committee who are in ICT. These people may well be conflicted and so I am happy for them not to come/to attend but only listen/participate fully as they feel comfortable. 3. I suspect that this will be a small meeting as most people will not have an opinion, but I want it to be as open as possible so feel free to invite other people who have opinions (both in favour and against). I have invited Paul French as Vice Dean for Research who will be joining us half way through and Matt Harvey who many of you know as head of ICT HPC and Research Computing efforts. Please invite anybody you see fit. 4. Please try to let me know if you and/or others plan to join (or not join) so that we can start in a non-ragid way. Finally, for reasons not worth going into here I cannot schedule teams meetings so unless somebody volunteers to set up a teams meeting for this I will use my CERN account toi schedule a zoom meeting first thing in the morning. Best, david