[tei-council] Ann Arbor spring meeting

[Martin Holmes]

I think we need to decide if the real meeting dates are Sunday 15th 
through Tuesday 17th. Looking at the list of attendees, there are only 
two of us travelling from elsewhere in North America (Brett and myself); 
I presume that for all the Europeans, a Saturday arrival would be 
better, so I would vote for changing the meeting dates to 15th-17th. If 
we do that, we can all head for home on the 18th (or even at the end of 
the 17th, if flights permit).

How do the local hosts feel about losing their Sunday?

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-01-25 06:01 AM, Rebecca Welzenbach wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As Kevin has suggested, it should be no problem to book our meeting
> room for Sunday, in case those who have arrived want to use it.
>
> I'm working now with the Bell Tower Inn
> (http://www.belltowerhotel.com/) to reserve a group of rooms. There's
> a discount (about 15%) if the rooms are paid for by the University of
> Michigan instead of by individuals--I'm working on whether we can get
> approval to do this. However, if several people expect to stay for
> some extra, un-reimbursed time, or arrive and depart on different
> days, this might be too complicated to handle as a single transaction.
>
> Based on the discussion above, it looks to me like there are now a
> maximum of five nights eligible for reimbursement: Saturday, April 14
> through Wednesday, April 18 (checking out Thursday morning). Is that
> right, or are we dropping Wednesday in exchange for Saturday, and not
> reimbursing for any stay after Tuesday night? (Or allowing four
> nights, *either* Saturday, *or* Wednesday?)
>
> I'm making plans based on our needing seven rooms--please let me know
> if I've missed anyone or if plans have suddenly changed and you don't
> expect to come:
> * James Cummings
> * Lou Burnard
> * Piotr Banski
> * Sebastian Rahtz
> * Brett Barney
> * Gabriel Bodard
> * Martin Holmes
>
> If you could reply, adding your expected arrival and departure dates
> after your name, that will help me with securing accommodations.
>
> Becky
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Kevin Hawkins
> <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info>  wrote:
>> Martin, thanks for investigating what MGuest offers and what we need.
>> You're right that it's insufficient for our needs, so we'll need to get
>> temporary accounts for everyone.  This is similar to what we did for the
>> 2009 conference and it shouldn't be a problem.
>>
>> (U-M is testing eduRoam, but it's not functional yet.)
>>
>> On 1/24/2012 4:12 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> I was just checking out the wifi access at UMich:
>>>
>>> "Wireless access
>>> Council members not affiliated with the University of Michigan can use
>>> MGuest. If the limited access is insufficient, the local organizers can
>>> ask Desktop Support Services to provide temporary uniqnames."
>>>
>>> The MGuest services is quite restrictive:
>>>
>>> [quote]
>>> MGuest is limited to web (http), secure web (https) secure mail services
>>> (IMAPS, POPS, SMTPS) and VPN services:
>>>
>>>        HTTP 80
>>>        HTTPS 443 (TLS/SSL)
>>>        POP3s 995 (TLS/SSL)
>>>        IMAPs 993 (TLS/SSL)
>>>        SMTPs 465 (TLS/SSL)
>>>        Secure Shell (SSH) port 22
>>>
>>> VPN access via the following ports is allowed:
>>>
>>>        Protocol 47, 50 and 51
>>>        port 500
>>>        port 1701
>>>        UDP port 4500
>>>        UDP port 10000
>>>
>>> MGuest is rate limited to 1Mbps down and 384kbps upload speeds.
>>>
>>> MGuest is treated like a non-UM network; some U-M resource such as
>>> library journals cannot be accessed.
>>> [/quote]
>>>
>>> That would presumably make my Jenkins server inaccessible, because it
>>> runs on port 8080:
>>>
>>> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/>
>>>
>>> And we have other projects running on other ports not on the MGuest
>>> list. If it's possible to get temporary logins to the main network,
>>> MWireless, I'd be happier. I'm assuming that UMich doesn't support
>>> eduroam? Something called "Internet2, Ann Arbor" does, but I don't see
>>> any mention on the main university site.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)