Welcome to new members, planning

[Laurent Romary]

Dear all,
I have another meeting on 20th January, and would thus favour the 27th.
I have nothing against going to Gent ;-)
Laurent

Le jeudi, 20 nov 2003, à 18:36 Europe/Paris, Natasha Smith a écrit :

> 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/
>
>
> 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
>>
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