[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

[Martin Holmes]

Weird. I went to the RIPTA site, and entered from: tf green, to: brown 
university campus, and got this:

<http://maps.google.com/maps?start=0&dirflg=r&mra=ls&sll=41.8249%2C-71.4119&sspn=0.2%2C0.2&=0&ttype=dep&date=02%2F07%2F13&saddr=tf+green&daddr=brown+university+campus&time=6%3A30pm>

All the options show lengthy walks.

But the airport site does show buses, now I've found it.

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-02-07 01:28 PM, Mylonas, Elli wrote:
> 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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>>

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