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From: hendrick@acset.be (Dick Hendrickson)
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Subject: X3J3 meeting in Brussels
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The current plan is that I will host X3J3 meeting #126
From July 12 to July 16, 1993 in the Brussels (Belgium)
area.  This will be the week after the WG5 meeting in
Bavaria.  

To make hotel plans I need to know some of the obvious
information.  I would appreciate an e-mail response as
soon as is reasonably practical, so that I can tell the
hotel how many rooms to block out for how long.

Questions:

1)  Do you plan to attend?
2)  Do you expect to bring a spouse, friend, child(ren)?
3)  What day do you expect to arrive?
4)  What day do you expect to leave?

5)  Would you be interested in a sightseeing trip to
    Brugge?  It's a beautiful old city with lots of
    canals, old churches, and stores.  
5a)  if yes to 5, should we lean on the chairman and
     see if we can take Wednesday afternoon off for the
     trip?
5b)  If yes to 5, should we plan on doing this on a weekend
     day?

General opinion question.

Brussels is a very large city with lots of very interesting
toursit-like places to visit and lots of very good restaurants.
As a result it tends to be rather expensive.  Louvain-la-Neuve
(where the factory is) is a small college town.  As a result,
it tends to be rather cheap, but there isn't much to do;
especially in the summer when the college kids go home and
the town shuts down.

Downtown Brussels is easy to see on foot and Brussels has a
very good subway/bus system of public transport.  Downtown 
L-l-N is even easier to see on foot than is Brussels; but, it
has no public transportation and is about 32 KM from the heart
of Brussels (and further from the heart of anything else).

Xeroxing in Brussels will either be very expensive if we do it
commercially, or will be slow if we send things to/from the office.
Xeroxing in L-l-N can be quick and "free".

Are there any strong preferences?  My feeling is that we should
have the meeting downtown and make an attempt to control the
Xerox costs.  But I can be easily swayed if anybody has strong
opinions or requirements.

Last question for Hardware vendors.  Would anybody who has a local
sales/distribution office be willing to provide a couple of 
loaner computers and a printer?  It has become traditional for
the local host to provide some computer access; unfortunately,
ACSET is a small company and we don't have any spare computers
(besides, everything we have is networked together to a file
server and our only printer).

Thanks for the information

Dick Hendrickson