[tei-council] Providence meeting logistics/preferences

[Kevin Hawkins]

Let me join in the fun with my list of preferences ...

On 4/5/2013 11:04 AM, Mylonas, Elli wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

Cheap coffee and tea are fine with me.

> 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 recall that James was particularly fascinated with food-truck culture 
in America, and since we had only one to choose from in College Station, 
I think a visit to the local selection, weather permitting, would be lovely.

> 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.

This would be even more lovely.  I look 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.

Fine with me!

K.