[tei-council] Providence meeting logistics/preferences

[Martin Holmes]

Hi all,

On 13-04-05 08:22 AM, James Cummings wrote:
> On 05/04/13 16:04, Mylonas, Elli wrote:

>> 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?

That suits me. I should get to the Biltmore in the afternoon, but I 
suspect I'll doze for a couple of hours before dinner (overnight flight).

>> 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)

No allergies or prejudices. I don't like Japanese natto, or durian. 
Other than that, anything.

>> 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.

Both cofee and tea will be welcome, ditto for snacks. I'm not a coffee snob.

>> 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?

The main thing with lunch is to manage it so it doesn't take up two 
hours. In the past, when we've all trooped off to a distant restaurant, 
the usual problems with marshalling ten people and rounding up the 
distracted has meant that lunch has expanded a bit; that's not so much 
of a problem in the sense that we're usually "working" (talking about 
TEI stuff) anyway over lunch, but if the restaurant is noisy or if we're 
dispersed across multiple tables that's not very effective. If there are 
nearby places where we'd be able to sit together and chat comfortably, 
that would be great; otherwise I'm just fine with ordering in pizza, 
Chinese food or whatever.

>> 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 great! Looking forward to it.

>> 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.

Also sounds good.

Cheers,
Martin

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