2003 Members meeting

[Lou Burnard]

A draft programme for the members meeting is now available for your
comment on the website at http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/
Thanks to Laurent, Peter, and Syd for helping get this together

There are still a few gaps to be filled, but the event is shaping up
nicely. A draft announcement to be sent to the usual lists follows (also
on the web at http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/announce,txt)

Please read carefully for typos and ogther infelicities!

<p>We are still lacking

* a call for the training event before hand

* further details on the BOF sessions, and a call for them

Volunteers to draft either gratefully received...

Note also that the intention is this year to provide written reports on
Council and Board activities *in advance of the meeting* rather than
spend time delivering same during the meeting. We should try to set a
realistic deadline for preparing these: how about 1 Oct as a first
approximation?

<p>Lou

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[Draft announcement: please comment]

                       TEI Members Meeting 2003

The third annual Members' Meeting of the TEI Consortium will be held
at ATILF, the nationally-funded laboratory for analysis and data
processing of the French language, based at the University of Nancy,
France, on the 7th and the 8th November 2003.

The first day will, as previously, be an open day with attendance not
restricted to TEI members and an eclectic mix of presentations from
invited speakers and TEI workgroups.  Invited speakers this year
include Nancy Ide, Michael Beddow, Patrick Durusau, and Vincent
Quint. There will be opportunities for attendees to speak briefly
about their own projects, and a "TEI Question Time" for them to
to ask about and provide feedback on future developments in the TEI.

The second day will contain a business session, restricted to Members
only, at which the annual elections for membership of the TEI Board
and Technical Council will be held. Meetings of TEI Special Interest
Groups (BOFs) are also scheduled for this day: see separate announcement.

A TEI training session will be organized the day before the Members
Meeting, on the 6th: see separate announcement.

Nancy is a noble and ancient city in the North East of France, with
excellent transport links (see further
http://www.ot-nancy.fr/pratique/); ATILF, formerly known as INALF, is
now based at the University of Nancy and a part of CNRS, the French
national research network (see further www.atilf.fr)

Accomodation has been reserved at the Hotel Albert 1er-Astoria, five
minutes walk from the meeting rooms at ATILF. A special rate of 50
euro/night for B&B is available to those attending the meeting (7th
and 8th Nov); those wishing to stay additional nights will also pay a
discounted rate of 65 euro/night. For bookings, please contact the
Hotel direct, specifying the TEI 2003 Meeting.

Costs: Attendance at the meeting is free of charge for Members: a
small entrance fee (50 euros) will be charged for non-members. All
attendees other than invited speakers will be required to fund their
own travel and accomodation. [lunch? refreshments? dinner?]

 
                     Draft programme:

Thursday 6 November: training day

Friday 7 November: open meeting. 
  Invited speakers 
  Open Session
  TEI Panel
  Dinner

Saturday 8 November: 
   BOF sessions
   Members meeting
   Elections to board and council;

Sunday 9 November: TEI board meets