[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

[Mylonas, Elli]

answers interspersed below.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:53 AM, James Cummings
<James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Elli, (CC'ed rest of Council)
>
> Looking at http://www.doodle.com/58khxi5tk9eieg3i
>
> Did we finally decide that Thursday 11, Friday 12 , and Saturday 13 April
> were the best dates?

Those work for me. Saturday is easier w/ respect to room availability.

>
> Does anyone have any serious objections to the last day being a Saturday?
> I'll assume everyone is good with this unless you respond in the next couple
> days.
>
> If not we better start organising!
>
> Questions/requirements that occur to me are:
> - We'll need a room for 12-15 people and some areas we can go for informal
> small breakout groups?

I have requested the Digital Scholarship Lab for those days. If there
is a class in it, we can move next door for an hour or two. There are
at least 2 rooms for breakouts in the same building (room next to DSL,
my office conference table), and possibly one or two more.

> - We'll definitely need wifi available. ;-)
Brown has guest wifi

> - We usually either book coffee breaks from whatever catering you'd normally
> use (or if there is a really close place to buy such refreshments)
both are possible

> - We'll need at least reservations for lunch at some places that will take a
> group our size each day.
yup, or can cater it

> - Do you know if there is any benefit of doing the hotel booking en masse
> via you (i.e. Brown gets discount or something) or is better to do
> individually? (We've done both ways before). Can you recommend a reasonable
> nearby hotel with wifi?
Brown doesn't have official discounts, but I can ask around. Or give
you names so you can try for them on hotels.com.

> - Is it helpful for some of us to gives talks (possibly the day before, weds
> 10) on our TEI-related work? Are locals interested or fed up with hearing
> about it from you. :-)
>
I was thinking about shilling for TEI talks to the Boston DH
consortium, to see if anyone wants to be invited, maybe get some
travel defrayed.  John Unsworth, as treasurer, has a vested interest
in keeping costs down.

> There are some other things on
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Council-Meeting-Checklist but that's a
> start!
>
> Best,
> -James
>
> --
> Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
> Academic IT Services, University of Oxford