[tei-council] Ann Arbor spring meeting

[Piotr Bański]

FWIW, I'm scheduled to be in Detroit at 12:43 on Sunday, so I hope to
join the afternoon activities.

Best,

  P.

On 25/01/12 18:22, Piotr Bański wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I also plan to fly to Detroit from within the States, on Sunday. I will
> try to find a morning flight but can't promise I will find one, so I'd
> rather treat Sunday afternoon as an extra, rather than as part of the
> meeting proper.
> 
> Best,
> 
>   Piotr
> 
> On 25/01/12 17:47, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> 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