[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

[Lou Burnard]

Indeed so. There's even a TRAIN!

On 07/02/13 20:21, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Looks like Logan would be cheaper. Flying to Green adds about $150 to
> the fare for me, and although Green is only ten miles from Brown,
> according to the RI transportation site I would need to walk for 36
> minutes from the airport to catch a bus to the campus. It looks much
> easier to get in from Logan.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 13-02-07 08:27 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>> 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
>>