M.G.Ormerod, Oct.3,1996
I took your proposals to the RMS Cytometry Section Committee today. They were not very enthusiastic.
They would be prepared to support a European Federation of national societies.
However, they thought that people in the UK would be unlikely to join as individual members. They felt that their national interest was served by the RMS and their international interests by ISAC.
I suggested that a European body could have an important role to play in regulatory issues. However, they said that these were already moving ahead without the national cytometry societies.
If you set up a discussion forum on the Internet, I suggest that you include myself, John Lawry (Chair, RMS Cytometry Section; J.Lawry@Sheffield.ac.uk) and Brian Shenton (past Chair, RMS Cytometry Section; b.k.shenton@newcastle.ac.uk). I have a forum set up in Reigate among local Borough Councillors in the ruling group. It works well. We do not have a special bulletin board. We just send messages to every other member of the group simultaneously. As long as it is restricted to about 20 people, you do not need any centralised point (like the Purdue cytometry discussion forum).
Best wishes,
Mike