Sebastian Heid (sh276@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:53:09 +0100 (BST)
Dear All,
Sarah and I strongly agree that it would be better to cancel this meeting.
Sebastian
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Richard Ogden wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> I apologise for earlier stroppiness!
>
> I have been speaking to Sarah, John and Paul. What is it we need to meet
> for? Are there big decisions that we all need to be there to make? If we
> meet in London it will be without JKL; if we meet in York it will be
> without Jill. So wherever we meet, we won't all be there anyway.
>
> Personally I have almost nothing to report anyway. Everyone else seems
> fraught with exams and general end-of-term stuff and then the impending
> ICPhS papers.
>
> I wonder if it would be more valuable for us to work at our own sites
> instead, and to spend the day (or days, Mon and Tues) on ProSynth things.
> For me this would save time (4-5 hours' travelling) and York money
> (another £150 out of our already severely depleted budget).
>
> This way I would be able to make progress on the CSL paper, and could eg.
> phone Jill and Sarah to discuss additions, corrrections, amendments to the
> paper. Paul has a lot of things to report; but they can probably be
> equally well done electronically. Again, if Mark or Sebastian wanted to
> talk to Paul about our (still rather primitive but nonetheless
> functioning!) timing code (which he could send out very soon) and his
> progress report, then there's the telephone. We could make appointments
> with each other today and tomorrow if we felt that was necessary.
>
> Other issues that we identify could be passed round today/tomorrow, and we
> could put them on our personal agendas for next week, and again consider
> using a phone call or a fax to sort them out.
>
> There is also the matter of "actions" from the previous meeting. We could
> all check on Mon/Tues (i) what we were meant to do (ii) that we did it
> (iii) and if we didn't, do it.
>
> I hope this is a useful suggestion (it originates with Sarah) -- it's up
> to UCL people to say whether they think it will work for them.
>
> How about our next date? The location could be San Francisco. There's no
> programme on Weds. -- maybe we could meet in the morning? Or on Saturday
> after the closing of the conference? Or one evening after the sessions
> finish at 6.30?
>
> Richard
>
> Richard Ogden
> rao1@york.ac.uk
> http://www.york.ac.uk/~rao1/
>
>
>
>
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