Welcome to new members, planning

[Natasha Smith]

Greetings:

Thank you, Christian, for the introduction and kind welcoming. I can only
say - I am pleased and honored...

To be honest, January 27th would be better for me, as on the 20th I am
planning to be in Moscow (I mean Russia, not Idaho), which doesn't exclude
a possibility of participating in a conf call - they DO have phones!, but
would be more convenient to me when I am back here. 

Needless to say, Edward's generous proposal sounds great and gets my vote. 

all the best, ns

Natasha (Natalia) Smith
Digitization Librarian
Wilson Library, CB#3990
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
email: natalia_smith at unc.edu
tel. (919) 962-9590
fax (919) 962-4452
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

<p>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, 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
>