Welcome to new members, planning

[Edward Vanhoutte]

Dear Council Members,

Thank you for the welcoming words by our chair.

A conference call on January 20th suits me.

As a possibel venue for the meeting in May I'd like to sugges the Royal
Academy of Dutch Language and Literature in Gent (Belgium) where I work.
Here's some prose about the building and its potential:

The building of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature is
located in the very centre of the old city, and can easily be reached by
public transport and on foot. This very friendly part of town is well
known for its excellent catering and accommodation facilities and
together with its central position both in Ghent and Flanders, it offers
interesting possibilities for an exciting additional social and cultural
conference programme.

The building at the Koningstraat 18 was built from 1746-1749 by the
Ghent master builder David 't Kint who was the central figure of the
local version of the Rococo style. The present offices of the Royal
Academy served as a residence for several noble families before the
Belgian state bought the building in 1892 to serve as the siege of the
Royal Academy. The building has now become a registered monument and the
Academy serves the public by welcoming music concerts and theatre
performances, and allowing guided parties in the building. The building
of the Academy is regularly chosen by directors of name for the shooting
of films on location.

Despite the historical value of the building and its classification as
an official monument, the building provides all modern infrastructure
and state of the art conference facilities.

Apart from the standard facilities of the Royal Academy building, we can
make use of five locations in the building of the Royal Academy:
- The Office of the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
(CTB) can function as the secretariat (printing, copying etc
facilities).
- The Large Meeting Room where normally the members of the Royal Academy
hold their monthly gatherings.
- The Green Tapestry Room can be used for smaller working sessions.
- The Red Silk Salon can be used for tea and coffee breaks, and
receptions.
- The Reading Room of the library (Guido Gezellezaal) can both be used
for smaller working sessions and for lunches catered in house.

The location is equipped with modern Computing and communication
facilities and offers the conference a LAN (Local Area Network) with
state of the art Computing equipment and facilities, to internet
connection, fax, and telephone facilities. Presentations will benefit
from the availability of a data projector, OHP, colour slide projector,
whiteboard, audio and video equipment, as well as the presence of a
mobile PA system with wireless microphones and body packs (headsets).
Each of the rooms can be arranged according to specific needs, thanks to
the availability of removable chairs and tables and the technical
assistance of dedicated staff. The kitchen infrastructure in the
building will ensure the catering of coffee, tea, and light refreshments
for the duration of the conference, and can provide coffee- and
tea-making facilities in each of the rooms.

Convinced?

Edward

<p><p>Christian Wittern wrote:
> 
> Dear Council members,
> 
> It is my pleasure to welcome the newly elected members Edward
> Vanhoutte and Natasha Smith to the Council and this list.  Although
> their term will not start until the beginning of next year, I asked
> Daniel Pitti (who add maintains this list) to add them right away,
> since we will need to start doing the planning for next year.  Daniel
> suggested the new members send a message to this list to verify they
> can post; as with many listservs nowaday, only the subscribed mail
> alias is allowed for posting.
> 
> As many of you will now, we had a very productive and in fact exciting
> meeting in Nancy.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank on
> behalf of the Council Laurent Romary and his team in Nancy for hosting
> such a splendid meeting.  I for one thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality
> and thoughtful arrangements.  It will be quite a challenge for the
> next host to live up to such a precedent.
> 
> Those who have been in Nancy will also be aware of the fact, that the
> Editors announced a pre-release version of P5 to be available for
> public review by March 2004.  This puts us on quite an aggressive time
> scale for next year, but I think we could and should aim at a release
> in time for the next members meeting.  (If you think this is too
> ambitious, please speak up right now!).
> 
> There are of course still many open ends that needs to be fixed for
> this.  To provide for discussion and work on this, I would like to
> have a conference call in January and March and a face to face meeting
> in May (location to be determined, suggestions welcome).  So far, we
> have been successful with scheduling the calls on Tuesdays at 1300
> GMT.  I would therefore like to see if we can have it on January 20th,
> 2004 or a week later on the 27th.
> 
> I would like to ask the workgroups to present their progress reports
> at that call.  It would be helpful if you could also include a list of
> items that needs to be resolved for P5 and a work schedule for that.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Christian Wittern
> 
> --
> 
>  Christian Wittern
>  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
>  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN


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Edward Vanhoutte
Co-ordinator
Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL)
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature
Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium
tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49
evanhoutte at kantl.be
http://www.kantl.be/ctb/
http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/