[tei-council] Providence meeting logistics/preferences

[James Cummings]

On 05/04/13 16:04, Mylonas, Elli wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Travel to Providence:
> This seems to have been thoroughly hashed out earlier. Don't hesitate to
> email Syd or me if you need any further information or if you are stuck
> somewhere.
>
> Wednesday:
> Early arrivals are welcome to get in touch and come up to campus for to
> visit and hang out.

I don't think I'll be there early, but perhaps in time for 
supper.  Should we arrange to meet at the Biltmore Lobby at a 
particular time? 7pm?

> Thursday:
> I have a swipe card for each of you so you can get past the library lobby.
> So either Syd or I will be in the lobby at 8:30 in order to disburse the
> cards. I'll repeat this, but I'd like to have the cards back on Saturday,
> as they can be re-used.
>
> Food in General:
> Are there food allergies, issues, habits and preferences, that you want
> known before I buy shrimp flavored peanuts coated with bacon bits for
> snacks.   (you can reply to me personally if you prefer)

I have no food allergies but don't mind admitting publicly that I 
dislike coffee, raspberries, and cream cheese. Shrimp-flavoured 
peanutes coated with bacon bits would be just fine. (For some 
value of 'fine' meaning 'sounds disgusting'.)


> Food-Coffee and Snacks:
> I am planning on providing coffee in a box (1 box in the morning and 1 or 2
> in the afternoon), a water boiler and tea bags for tea and various snacks
> (breads in the morning, cookies/trail mix in the afternoon) vel sim. If you
> think that most of us will prefer to go out and buy higher quality coffee
> or if you are all tea or water drinkers, then I won't bother. Same for
> snacks.

I don't drink coffee because it tastes icky whatever the quality. 
I'd be happy with tea or happy to bring my own water or more 
likely caffeine laden fizzy drink. But I will happily snack 
almost continuously on any snacks available and then regret it 
later.

> Food-Lunch:
> Should it be provided or do we want to order in pizza or go out to nearby
> food places or the food trucks?

I'm very undiscriminating when it comes to food and eat almost 
anything (except those things I dislike mentioned above, and even 
some of those if I'm trying to be polite). I'll leave it to more 
cultivated palettes to comment.

> Food-Dinner:
> Food preferences listed above will play into where we may go for dinner.
> However, I propose to invite you to dinner on Thursday chez Mylonas-Durand
> (TEI is treating, we're cooking), which will allow for more hanging out
> time, the ability to talk to more people than the one sitting next to you
> and so onl. Is that agreeable? I live close to campus, and we will provide
> rides home.

Sounds good to me. Can you give me (offlist fine) an estimate as 
to the expense?

> Entertainment and Meeting Rooms:
> Thursday at 5:30 there is a great talk in the DSL (the space where we are
> having our meeting). We will have to clear out around 4:30 and move next
> door to allow for setup. However, the presentation is being given by John
> Cayley, one of our electronic writers, and he is planning on showing some
> code-based works (he does a lot of google hacking), but also performing a
> new piece, some kind of audio visual text based extravaganza. If you want
> to stay for that and do dinner afterwards, that would be great. It might
> set the schedule back by about 30 minutes, but well worth it.

This sounds like fun to me.  As I've said the schedule at
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Council_agenda_2013-04
is flexible so we can push dinner slightly later.

-James


-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford