[tei-council] Budget news, PERS meeting

[Dan O'Donnell]

As an ex officio member, I believe I can still signal my lack of
protest. Speaking personally, I think it is a good idea.

-dan

On Fri, 2007-19-01 at 12:13 +0900, Wittern Christian wrote:
> Council members,
> 
> I just got news from Dan that the Board approved a rollover of unspend
> budget of 2006 for 2007. If I understand correctly, we thus have roughly
> $4k more than last year to spend , i.e. $28k. This is a one time, no
> precedent-setting affair under the assumption that P5 will finally go
> out this year and thus needs some additional care.  We might be able to
> squeeze in a second f2f meeting of the Council or a subcommittee modeled
> on the Oxford class meeting if that turns out to be necessary -- this is
> assuming that the April meeting in Berlin will be significantly less
> expensive than last years Kyoto meeting.
> 
> Apart from that, and much more concrete, there has been a request from
> Matthew Driscoll to hold the PERS meeting in Vilnius. He expects this
> will set us back around $4-5k.  This would also go out of this above
> mentioned budget. I would like to approve this, but am open to other
> opinions from the Council.  We will need to act quickly on this, so if
> you disagree, please speek up now.  I will set the cutoff time for
> protests to Sunday evening 23:59 GMT, which will allow me to notify
> Matthew of the results Monday morning JST.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
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