Conference call, Meeting

[Natasha Smith]

I hope this is the toughest decision we ever need to make in our lives -
Gent or Goteborg, May or June...

More seriously, I decided to untangle several facts that became tied
together, so I would see a bit clearer in those - already mentioned
several times - muddy waters:

1. re ACH/ALLC conf schedule. Counting the workshops it will take place
from June 9 (Wed) through 16 (Wed)

2. if we want to separate the conference from the TEI Council meeting,
they probably should be at least 5 (if not more) weeks apart. It relieves
the pressure on both work schedule (I mean at our work places) and on -
sorry for that - the body when flying such a distance (I guess I AM
getting older...)

3. re "bean counting" started by Syd and supported by our respected Chair.
We (read the TEI-C)  might very well benefit money-wise if we tie those
two events together instead of separating them. How? Maybe some of our
institutions will be able to cover _portion_ of the cross-the-pond
traveling (I foolishly hope mine will pitch in), which will cut the cost
of flying all the American members to the meeting.

4. the work on P5 is certainly should be considered first place, but some
of us mentioned conferences, presentations, workshops that should be
attended and given right before the ACH/ALLC conference, so I cannot see
that those very busy weeks would really push the publication further.

Thus, my suggestion would be:

1. to tie two events together (consider financial and scheduling reasons)

2. consider both options - before and after the ACH, i.e. June 17 (even
16?)-19 OR June 6-8 (unless there are unchangeable reasons and tradition,
that I do not know of, of having meetings only on Thur-Sat)

3. I hate to say it (I've never been in Gent and would love to go there),
but it probably makes easier to have our meeting closer to the conf.
place. Maybe next time?

best, ns

Natasha (Natalia) Smith
Digitization Librarian
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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<p>On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 pwillett at indiana.edu wrote:

> At the risk of muddying those muddy waters further, wouldn't it make more 
> sense, if we are to combine the two meetings, to meeting somewhere in 
> Goteborg? Meeting in Brussels (as eager as I am to do so for a number of 
> reasons) would just add an extra leg or round trip onto the cost. 
> 
> Perry
> 
> 
> Quoting Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>:
> 
> > I have no strong objection to making the council meeting adjacent to the
> > allc/ach conference and see the logic of doing so, though it probably
> > means the schedule for getting P5 published will slip further.
> > 
> > My diary has the Goteborg meeting finishing wed 16th. Amazingly enough,
> > there are directly daily flights between Goteborg and Brussells,
> > operated by Sabena and by Malmo Aviation. Journey time 100 mins, price
> > about 70 GBP; Brussells is about 30 minutes by train from Gent.
> > 
> > So, I suggest that we stick with a Thu/Fri/Sat pattern, and go for 17/18
> > June. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 08:34, Christian Wittern wrote:
> > > 
> > > OOPS, it looks like I mixed up the dates.  
> > > 
> > > ACH/ALLC is scheduled for June 11-16, while I assumed it to be end of
> > > July (from my experience in Glasgow and Tuebingen, I guess).  Mid June
> > > is of course quite different, and I agree now to concerns voiced by
> > > Council members that it would be better to consider a timing that
> > > would allow for one trip over the pond instead of two.  We are all
> > > bean-counters in some ways, and I certainly do not want to make two
> > > trips within the space of two weeks.  I propose therefore that we make
> > > the council meeting adjoint to ACH/ALLC at least for the dates
> > > (assuming that we still want to rather meet in Gent)
> > > 
> > > So, we need to rethink the whole scheduling I guess.  Alternatives are
> > > now pre- or post conference meeting.  Because of the diverse
> > > pre-conference activities, I wonder if it would be easier for
> > > everybody to have the Council meeting afterwards?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > "Susan Schreibman" <ss423 at umail.umd.edu> writes:
> > > 
> > > > The first thursday in June is actually the 3rd -- which is a week before
> > the
> > > > ACH/ALLC in Goteborg. I don't know if that would be too close for those
> > of
> > > > us travelling to both. It would probably work out for me as I think I
> > will
> > > > be doing workshops beforehand and if so, would need to be in Sweden by
> > the
> > > > 7th.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > The website says there are pre-Conference workshops on 9th and 10th --
> > > do you expect to teach even before that?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Confused in Cyoto, 
> > > 
> > > Christian
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 
> > >  Christian Wittern 
> > >  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
> > >  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
> > > 
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