Re: [DIG-users] Proposed f2f meeting to progress the DIG specific ation

[Sean B. <se...@cs...>]

Dickinson, Ian J wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
>>I am afraid, due to my teaching obligations, the week beginning with 
>>July 5th is impossible for me.
> 
> Noted.  Ian Horrocks also can't make that week.
> 
> 
>>I have free time slots in August though.
> 
> Dani emailed me to say that between himself and Sean, August is fully
> covered by vacation until w/b August 30th (which, as it happens, is a public
> holiday in the UK).  So it looks as though the earliest we could all meet
> would be Tuesday Sept 1st.
> 
> 
>>What about funding?
> 
> HP is prepared to host the event for free, but you'd have to cover your own
> travel costs. If travel funding is difficult for you, I guess we could come
> to Germany (well, I could probably get travel funding for a short trip to
> mainland Europe, I don't know if that's true for the Manchester folks).  It
> would give me a good reason to brush up my German :-)

Ja :-). I'm sure we'd be able to fund a short trip. Give current UK 
train prices, flying to Germany probably isn't that much different from 
travelling to Bristol...

> The alternative, of course, is that we do the revision process by email.  I
> tend to think though, that as we're all very busy with other work, a f2f
> would provide a good shot of momentum to get the process off to a good
> start.

I'd agree. A f2f is always a good idea, particularly when there's likely 
to be a fair bit of discussion. If we don't want to wait until September 
(although in reality given holidays, conferencing, etc etc it's not 
actually *that* far away now), an alternative is to try and set up an 
Access Grid meeting or something similar. We've had some success with 
that recently. Do you (Ralf, Ian D) have those facilities?

	Sean

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Sean Bechhofer
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