ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 Plenary
August 26-30, 2002
Hotel Riekonlinna, Saariselkä, Finland
Conference venue
The meeting will take place at Hotel Riekonlinna in Saariselkä in
Lappland. Saariselkä is a well known Holiday Resort approx. 250 km
to the north of the Arctic Circle. Saariselkä is a small "town-like"
community located in the corner of one of the biggest Finland's
natural parks having good winter sports facilities in wintertime
and hiking facilities in summer.
Travelling to Saariselkä via Helsinki
Most international flights to Finland arrive at Helsinki-Vantaa airport.
There are several flights from Helsinki to Ivalo (served by Finnair, the
national airline, http://www.finnair.com,
so you can book a connecting flight quite easily). Because of the
location in very Northern part of Finland there are no other convenient
trasportation possibilities to Ivalo. For adventurers a train to
Rovaniemi (11 hours from Helsinki) and a bus (250 kilometers from Rovaniemi)
is an alternative, but not recommended by organizers.
Transportation from Ivalo to Saariselkä (and back)
The Ivalo airport is located 25 kilometers from Hotel Riekonlinna.
There will be regular bus transportation from the airport to the hotel
after flight arrival and to the departing flights from the hotel.
The bus fare is about EUR 7 and taxi fee approximate EUR 60.
Contact information of the hotel is:
Hotel Riekonlinna
FIN-99830 SAARISELKÄ
FINLAND
Tel. + 358 16 679 44 00
Fax. +358 16 679 44 56
Registration to the meeting and accomodation
Accomodation:
The agreement with the hotel concerns meeting arrangements, accomodation
and meals for the meeting days. Prices per day for single rooms will be
EUR 111 and in double rooms EUR 80 per person (breakfast, dinner, lunch
included).
Registration to the meeting:
Participants are expected to make advance registration to the meeting
latest at June 15th, 2002. The summer break of the Finnish universities
is in July and we are not able to guarantee regular and fast response
to the emails in that time. We recommend to make registration and advance
hotel reservations before June 15th, 2002 even in the case that all details
of the stay are not known. You may send corrected or more detailed information
concerning your stay in Saariselkä by email to the organizers even
after the deadline of the registration (ullan@pori.tut.fi).
Registration and hotel reservation form:
Hotel reservations will be taken care by the organizers. Please make
registration and hotel reservation by filling the registration
form.
Currency exchange, credit cards
Finland has joined to the European currency union and the currency is Euro.
Check exchange rates at
Hotel Riekonlinna has an exhange service but because of hotel exchange
rates we recommend you to arrange your currency exchange in advance
either at home or at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Most common credit cards
are accepted in Hotel Riekonlinna.
Sponsors
Hopefully available. Listed later.
Meeting facilities
We have reserved one large meeting room and additional rooms for groupworks
and drafting committee. The large meeting room is equipped with overhead
projector, a PC, dataprojector and network connection (hope so). We also
have photocopier and printers for the meeting. Internet connection
is available for the conference and available also in some hotel rooms.
The computers at the conference site are equipped with MS standard software.
If you have special needs concerning conference facilities, please contact
us in advance.
Electricity: Currency in Finland is 230 Volts / 50 Hz. The plug
used is according to the Europe Schuko -standard.
Finland in August
The weather in Northern Finland (Lappland) in August is turning from
summer to autumn. The weather may be changing from reasonable warm and
beautiful to rainy, windy and cool. Anyway, it is expectable to have
day temperature varying between +10..20 Centigrades, and at nights
the temperature +/- 0 Centigrades. In Southern Finland day time temperatures
are usually between around +20 Centigrades; nights a bit cooler.
General information on weather in Finland can be found at the www-pages
of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (http://www.fmi.fi/en/index.html).
Weather at Ivalo airport (and other airports) is reported by Finnish Aviation
Authority (http://www.ilmailulaitos.com/ilmailulaitos/).
Weather forecast covering several areas in Finland is also available in
Wunderground www-pages (http://www.wunderground.com/global/FI.html).
Clothing instructions: The nature of the meeting is informal.
Saariselkä is a leisure time center having good opportunity for hiking
in the surrounding National Park area having guided hiking routes
- more or less demanding. The hotel and the village environment encourage
you to wear leisure time clothes. We do not organize any occasions expecting
formal dressing. Please take into account the weather conditions.
Useful links
Contact information
In case you have any questions concerning the meeting, please contact us:
Ulla Nevanranta
Tampere University of Technology (Pori)
P.O. Box 300, FIN-28101 PORI, Finland
tel. +358 2 627 2710
fax. +358 2 630 0911
email: ullan@pori.tut.fi
Hannu Jaakkola
Tampere University of Technology (Pori)
P.O. Box 300, FIN-28101 PORI, Finland
tel. +358 2 627 2712
+358 400 622 942 (mobile phone)
fax. +358 2 630 0911
email: hj@pori.tut.fi