[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

[Mylonas, Elli]

getting from TF Green to Providence by bus: you DON'T have to walk 36
minutes. unless you walk very, very slowly. Bus 14 and 20 stop right in
front of the terminal. Bus 8 stops at the other end of a long skyway that
also connects the airport to a parking garage and the train. I think it
took me about 10  minutes to walk across the skyway.

for taxi, see previous mail - it's about 15 minutes, but a little pricey.

I'll be calling hotels tomorrow. --elli




On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Mylonas, Elli <elli_mylonas at brown.edu>wrote:

> 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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