Dear GSECARS Users, We would like to announce the first public town hall style Zoom meeting to be held on Monday, November 16, 2-4 PM MST (Denver,USA). https://unm.zoom.us/j/97433265379 The purpose of the meeting is to discuss NSF's Dear Colleague Letter that was released recently titled "Competition of Management and Operations of synchrotron-hosted analytical capabilities for Earth sciences" https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20124/nsf20124.jsp. Among the agenda items to be discussed: * Vision statement for the new organization * Defining the charge of a possible steering committee or founders committee * Naming the new organization * How to effectively engage the broad earth science community Best regards, Mark Rivers, Stephen Sutton (Directors, GSECARS) Carl Agee (President COMPRES)