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<div class="">You would have seen the following email (forwarded by our ESO Council representative Matthew Colless over the weekend). ESO is contemplating the suspension of the P107 call for proposals. ESO has asked the Users Committee (UC) representatives
to collate our community's reaction to this. As your ESO UC representative, I invite you to let me know if you have any feedback. While I have my own personal opinion about this, the best way for me to appropriately represent the breadth of opinions within
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<div class="">Also, the recommendations from April’s UC meeting should be public sometime in August. I will be in touch once this is the case to let you all know and give a more thorough update.</div>
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