welcome, new members

[Merrilee Proffitt]

Conference call: either of the dates in November are fine for me.
Meeting in May: dates are okay.

I don't believe the US will still be on daylight time in November (usually 
ends the last Sunday in October), although this would be a delightful surprise!

Merrilee

At 12:12 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>