[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

[Martin Holmes]

I need to book my trip soon. Is it Green Airport we should be flying into?

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-02-01 08:55 AM, Mylonas, Elli wrote:
> 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

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)