[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

[James Cummings]

I was assuming Boston/Logan Airport and then train to Providence. 
  I wonder how much a connecting flight adds?

Elli: Do we know whether some of us need to come a day early for 
giving some talks, or not?

-James


On 07/02/13 16:25, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 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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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford