Hi Rich, I personally don’t have any objections to sharing my own input in the appendix. Same goes for our collective response as far as I am concerned. Probably best to check with David to see when he thinks the right point to share that outside the Department is. Thank you for asking first. I am glad you found some of my comments about cost useful/insightful! Best wishes, Robert |————————————————————————————> Dr Robert J. Kingham Plasma Physics Group Imperial College London rj.kingham@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:rj.kingham@imperial.ac.uk> Professional Web Page<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/rj.kingham> I work flexibly and aspire to a sensible work-life balance. I’m sending this email now because it suits me, but I don’t expect you to read or respond outside of your own working hours. During the COVID-19 pandemic it may take me longer than usual to reply to emails, due to my care & education responsibilities of my school-age children. <————————————————————————————| On 9 Jun 2020, at 11:55, Bantges, Richard J <r.bantges@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:r.bantges@imperial.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi David & Physics Dept. Computing Reps, I just wanted to check that there aren’t any objections to sharing the contents of the summary from yesterday’s meeting with other Departments? Please let me know if there are, otherwise I will forward David’s summary to Suhail at the end of today, to give him an overview of the concerns from some of us in the Physics Department. I think Robert’s earlier comment about our “cost” of reacting to proposed restructuring of ICT is incredibly insightful! Best wishes, Rich From: Islam, Suhail A Sent: 09 June 2020 11:47 To: Bantges, Richard J <r.bantges@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:r.bantges@imperial.ac.uk>>; Wiltshire, Jeff N <jeff.wiltshire@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:jeff.wiltshire@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: re: ICT Redundancies Dear Richard/Jeff I am the Rep for the Dept of Life Sciences and look after the computer systems for a number of research groups here. In addition, I am involved in IT teaching for UG & PG students. Therefore, very dependent on ICT and HPC support. The worst aspect of these proposed changes is to see our ICT colleagues jobs on the line. I have seen the Open Letter (which I will sign) and your comments. As with yourselves I am extremely concerned with the proposed changes and in particular the (unbelievable) timing. May I please trouble you to CC me in any general communications/meetings, especially those requiring support. At the moment I am trying to understand the practical implications of these changes and talking with various people. Any further information would be invaluable. Regards Suhail ---------------------------------- Dr Suhail A Islam Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Department of Life Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ email: suhail.islam@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:suhail.islam@imperial.ac.uk> www: www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk<http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/> Tel: +44-(0)20-7594-5333 Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-5789 ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk> https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing