[tei-council] Planning next face2face meeting

[James Cummings]

Hi all,

I'm starting to look at planning our next TEI Council face2face 
meeting. Oxford had been suggested as the location.  This has the 
fiscal benefits that Lou, Sebastian, James, and Gabby don't need 
to fly anywhere. ;-) However, of course, if we were just being 
motivated by saving money then returning to the states (e.g. Ann 
Arbor) is probably slightly cheaper.

There had been the suggestion that it would be beneficial to have 
it adjacent to the EEBO-TCP meeting coincidentally happening 
Oxford in September (which is what we did last time). However, 
I've recently had confirmation that I will be out of the country 
at this time.

Another option suggested in Providence, I believe was for this to 
be November, I assume with the idea that this is far enough from 
the TEI Conference for people to have recovered.  November would 
suit me fine.

With all that in mind I have the following questions for you all:

1) Do you have a strong preference for Oxford or Ann Arbor; I'm 
assuming Oxford is better choice this time and seems fairer on 
this year's elected Americans (in getting a trip to the UK).

2) Do you have a strong preference for timing? I'm leaning to 
mid-November myself but other than having a massively busy 
Sept/October I've no other reason. I'll put up a doodle poll 
eventually to get more precise availability but happy to rule out 
things in advance.

3) Our last face2face meeting in Oxford was partly at Wolfson 
College; were those who attended that ok with that as a meeting 
venue? (We have a good relationship with them since out 
Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School is there.) I am 
investigating that as a possibility but can look for other venues 
if people were dissatisfied with that one.

Any thoughts?

-James


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