[tei-council] TE Council Meeting in April.

Thu Feb 7 18:38:37 EST 2013

It looks like my best bet, since I'm going east, is to set off Tuesday 
afternoon and arrive some time on Wednesday, hopefully before lunch. 
That would put me there for Wednesday afternoon or evening. I've 
promised James a talk for DHOXSS in July, which I could also give, about 
an API and web service for providing encoding examples directly from a 
TEI project database. Something like "Turn your TEI site into a a 
repository of TEI coding examples" -- can't figure out a snappy title 
yet. Too geeky?

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-02-07 01:32 PM, Mylonas, Elli wrote:
> One last question about the meeting:
>
> Are any of you interested in perhaps giving a talk before the meeting? I
> can contact the Boston area DH group to see if we can organize something. I
> figure this might be a way to defray some travel for the TEI.
>
> Will anyone be here during the day on Wednesday? --elli
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Mylonas, Elli <elli_mylonas at brown.edu>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)