From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/62941 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Hagmann?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ideas for ConTeXt meetings Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC6BE63.9090700@unibas.ch> References: <201010261146.14349.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288093308 15484 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2010 11:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:41:48 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Oct 26 13:41:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAhuP-0002yT-TH for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06FE4CA788; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zTgvyfEGtp9w; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3189DCA77B; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845CFCA77B for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bCbmdBLxvoOB for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE5EC9A7C for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp1pub.unibas.ch (smtp1pub.unibas.ch [131.152.227.80]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o9QBfOgP010325 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:41:24 +0200 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,240,1286143200"; d="scan'208";a="108204592" Original-Received: from unknown (HELO bonasa.local) ([131.152.79.98]) by smtp1priv.unibas.ch with ESMTP; 26 Oct 2010 13:41:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.1.5 In-Reply-To: <201010261146.14349.alan.braslau@cea.fr> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=131.152.227.80; country=CH; region=04; city=Basel; latitude=47.5667; longitude=7.6000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=47.5667,7.6000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rDnnFoJz - 649de024f2b4 - 20101026 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:62941 Archived-At: Something else to consider is the date. Quite a few of us work in = academia, and the fall term has recently been advanced, at least at many = European universities, to just about when the ConTeXt meetings are being = held. Of course you can't please everybody -- just a suggestion. Cheers, J=F6rg On 10/26/10 11:46 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2010 09:31:25 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> >> If we meet less far off than Brejlov or Porquerolles, > > Far from where? > Canada or South Africa, just to name a few places from which participants > came... > > In organizing an international meeting, it is always a delicate balance in > choosing a site that is reasonably accessible, reasonably affordable, > reasonably attractive and available at a reasonable date. A meeting also = needs > to be organized which implies quite a lot of (volonteer) work from a small > group of people. This means that the locale also depends on the availabli= ty of > such volonteers. > > It is also sane that the meeting be held in different regions, and, > unfortunately, not all meetings will be practical (or possible) for every= one. > We need to work together to find ways to make the meetings work for a max= imum > number of participants in the best way possible. > ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________