welcome, new members

[Susan Schreibman]

Dear John, thank you for your email. The dates you suggest for May are fine
with me. Also either of the November dates are fine, but Thursday suits me
slightly better.

usan

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Unsworth" <jmu2m at virginia.edu>
To: "TEI Council" <tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu>
Cc: "Geoff Rockwell" <grockwel at mcmaster.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 12:12 PM
Subject: welcome, new members

<p>> Hello all,
>
> I'm pleased to welcome to the council new and returning members recently
> elected at the annual meeting in Chicago:
>
> Alejandro Bia (who was elected for a two-year term)
>
> David Birnbaum (who had served a one-year appointed term on the council,
> and now begins a two-year elected term)
>
> David Durand (likewise)
>
> Susan Schreibman (who was elected for a two-year term)
>
> I'd also like to thank Geoff Rockwell for his service: Geoff is rotating
> off a one-year appointment to the Council, but has been elected to the
Board.
>
> Susan and Alejandro, you're newcomers to the list, so you need to know
that
> you can send mail to the Council at tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu
> from any of these addresses:
>
> ss423 at umail.umd.edu
> susan_schreibman at umail.umd.edu
> abia at dlsi.ua.es
>
> If there's another version of your address from which posting should be
> allowed, please let me know.  You can also find past proceedings of
Council
> email discussion on the web, at:
>
> http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/
>
> using the username/password that you use to get into the members area of
> the TEI web site, namely
>
> tei
> c0ns0rtium
>
> I am also pleased to report that the Board approved a face-to-face meeting
> for the Council: in spite of need to economize, the Board felt that such a
> meeting would be well worth it. In light of where the various work-groups
> are with their tasks, though, and in order to make sure that a
face-to-face
> meeting could be one at which the Council considered the final
> recommendations of those groups, the Board recommended that we move that
> meeting back from January to May.  The Board also cancelled its own
> face-to-face meeting in May, which had been scheduled to take place in
> Oxford, and offered the reservation of the facilities to the
> Council.  Here's how Sebastian described those facilities:
>
> >Rewley House, Oxford.
> >This is in Wellington Square, Oxford, and is a pleasant
> >environment with decent bedrooms and meeting rooms. For computing
> >purposes, it's 5 minutes from here (Computing Services). The location is
> >central Oxford, 3 minutes walk from the bus station, which is an
> >hour by bus from Heathrow airport.
>
> I believe the dates reserved are May 16 and 17, 2003 (a
> Friday/Saturday).  If these dates do not work out for us, I don't believe
> there's a penalty for cancelling the reservation at this point, but we
> should make that decision soon, so please let me know whether you can make
> a meeting on these dates.
>
> Also, between now and May, the Council will need to have one or two
> conference calls, to keep things moving along.  I would suggest one in
> mid-November, one in late February or early March.  Our members are
> scattered around the globe, and previous experience suggests that the only
> time of day that remotely practical for all members, in real time, will be
> at 9 am eastern time in the US, which puts the West Coast participant
> (Merrilee) on at 6 a.m., and the participant in Japan (Christian) on at 10
> pm, and others at more civilized hours in between.  I'm basing this on:
>
>
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personalapplet.html?cities=43,105,136,
137,736,287,418,538,325
>
> You should each have a look, to confirm that I have your time zone
> represented there.  NB: the US is (and will be, in November) on Daylight
> Savings Time, so that although the east coast is normally -5 UTC/GMT, we
> will be -4 UTC/GMT for this next call.
>
> Let me suggest two dates for the November call, which should last an hour
> and a half at most, and ask each of you to let me know whether you would
be
> available at the necessary time for your location, on those dates:
>
> November 14 (Thursday), 9 am EDT ( -4 UTC/GMT)
> November 21 (Friday), 9 am EDT ( -4 UTC/GMT)
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Unsworth
>
>
>
>
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