From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Fri Mar 12 16:30:42 2004 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) id i2CFUgnH045738 for sc22wg5-domo; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:30:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from balin.rl.ac.uk (balin.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.155]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i2CFUWE7045730 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:30:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk) X-RAL-MFrom: X-RAL-Connect: Received: from jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk [130.246.9.202]) by balin.rl.ac.uk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2CFUnYW031452; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:30:51 GMT Received: from rl.ac.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2CFUeCB025974; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:30:40 GMT Message-ID: <4051D7A0.9090205@rl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:30:40 +0000 From: John Reid Reply-To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 Subject: Re: WG5 meeting in 2005 References: <4051AF22.4000003@fujitsu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk WG5, Here is a message from Matthijs about next year's meeting. It is very good news since almost everyone said that they would like a meeting in the Netherlands. He says that any date in July or August would be OK. I would like to suggest the last week of July, that is, 25-29 July. J3 usually meets in mid-August, so I think we should avoid August. Please may I have your thoughts on the suitability of 25-29 July? I particularly need to know if you cannot come that week, but could make another week in July or August. We have usually met in the summer, but it has been pointed out to me that trans-Atlantic fares are much less at other times. Matthijs thinks he could probably arrange it at another time. Please will you let me know if having it at another time would let you attend or would prevent your attending. I would like to maximize the attendance. With best wishes, John. Matthijs van Waveren wrote: > Dear John, > > I visited the Dutch NEN in Delft last week, and had a meeting with Ton > van Bergeijk and Ed van Feen. NEN is the Dutch Standardisation > Institute. We agreed upon the following: > > NEN will make a meeting room for up to 20 persons available to WG5 for a > week in the summer of 2005. There is a space for subgroups near the > meeting room, and if necessary, we could also use van Feen's office. We > will have some secretarial support for printing. Ton van Bergeijk is our > local contact in Delft, and he will investigate whether we can have > direct electronic access to the printer from the meeting room. If this > does not work, we can give electronic copies of documents to the > secretary for printing. A flipover is available, and a beamer will be > reserved for the meeting. > > Coffee will be available throughout the day. NEN has proposed to pay for > lunches in the cafeteria of the building. If we want drinks and snacks > during the meeting, we will need to take care of it ourselves. This > means buying a crate of soft drinks and snacks, like is done in Las > Vegas. We would need to ask for a contribution of attendees at the start > of the meeting. > > The NEN building is 5 minutes walk from the train station Delft Zuid. > There are several hotels within 5-10 minutes walk of the central Delft > train station. The connection between Delft Central and Delft Zuid is > very good. There is a train every 15 minutes, and the trip takes 5 > minutes. There is also a bus every 15 minutes, which takes 8 minutes to > get to Delft Zuid. If a meeting attendee prefers to stay in the Hague or > Rotterdam, that is also possible, as there is a frequent direct train > connection to these cities. > > There is a web site for hotels in Delft: http://www.delfthotels.nl, > where meeting attendees can reserve a hotel room. I visited a few of the > hotels, and they are fine. There is one behind the station with a sauna, > and there are some in the old part of Delft (very picturesque). Note > that the film on Vermeer 'The Girl with a Pearl Earring' recently came > out, and this film gives an impression of old-style Delft. And of > course, Delft is famous for the blue pottery. The hotels do not yet > accept bookings for summer 2005. The rates are between 70 and 140 euros > per night including breakfast. > > There is also a web site for restaurants in Delft: > http://www.delftrestaurants.nl. There is a wide variety of choice. > > I will take some folders on Delft and maps to the WG5 meeting in May. > > Yours sincerely, > Matthijs van Waveren