[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

[Mylonas, Elli]

I think I already sent this to the list when we first discussed it.

international flights should go to Logan. there is a bus directly from
Logan to Providence (www.peterpanbus.com) and you can also take the T to
South Station and take the MBTA to Providence from there (www.mbta.com,
providence line)

Occasionally you can price something to Newark, with a flight to
Providence, but mostly Logan is better.

Within the US, you can fly to TF Green airport in Providence. It's about 12
miles from Providence, taxi costs about $25 (v. expensive, considering) or
you can ride a city bus for $2 into Providence. Also, if the timing is
right, the Boston commuter rail will also do it.

You can also fly to Boston, some flights are cheaper, but you have to
figure in another hour at least of travel time. Also, departing, TF Green
is a little airport and you can get away with arriving an hour in advance,
Logan is big and you have to a) leave more time and b) work with bus/train
schedules.

I can help with more details otherwise. --elli


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> 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
>
> --
> Martin Holmes
> University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
> (mholmes at uvic.ca)
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