Yesterday I was given the following list of local accommodations for our meeting this month. -------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL HOTEL INFORMATION Cambridge Marriott Hotel 2 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 617-494-6600 MIT Rate: $149.00 Kendall Square; walking distance to MIT Royal Sonesta 5 Cambridge Parkway Cambridge, MA 02142 617-491-3600 MIT Rate: $135 Approximately half mile from MIT. Hyatt Regency 545 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 800-233-1234 617-492-1234 MIT Rate: $140 Just under one mile from MIT. -------------------------------------------------------------------- These rates seem pretty high to me, but they reflect the situation in Boston. An alternative would be to meet at AMS in Providence where the local Marriott gives us an $82 rate for rooms. Providence has its niceties (e.g. good restaurants), but is a much smaller city than Boston. Transportation to and from Logan airport in Boston takes about 1 1/2 hours and runs frequently. I can also control meeting logistics somewhat more easily here in Providence than in Cambridge; W3C has been very slow to respond to inquiries. Left to my own criteria for decision, I'm inclined to book a block of rooms at the Royal Sonesta and have everyone stay there. The $135 rate is not a block price, and there's some chance we can get a slightly better rate with 10 or more reservations. Susan Hardy at W3C tells me that the Hyatt is on a main highway (Memorial Boulevard) and doesn't provide much pleasant immediately outside the hotel. If someone would like to stay somewhere other than the RS, please let me know so that I can remove a name from the block if it comes to that. If several people prefer something other than the RS, I can broach another suggestion to the group, but we should make arrangements by next week, if not by early next week. My list of attendees is currently: Ste'phane Dalmas, INRIA (SAFIR) Stan Devitt, Maplesoft Stephen Glim, Mathsoft Patrick Ion, Math Reviews Robert Miner, The Geometry Center Nico Poppelier, Elsevier Dave Raggett, W3C Bruce Smith, Wolfram Neil Soiffer, Wolfram Bob Sutor, IBM Ron Whitney, AMS Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Ralph Youngen, AMS ***************************************************************** Susan of W3C would also like each attendee to register with W3C by email. To do so, please send information as specified in: ----------------------------------------------- Name Title Company Address City, State/Province/Region, Postal Code Country Email Telephone Fax Company Url ------------------------------------------------ to the address register@w3.org. I suggest we also use something like "html-math wg/ Sep30" as the subject line to distinguish our meeting. ***************************************************************** Discussions with Tim Berners-Lee at W3C have resulted in a preliminary charter for this Working Group, which can be accessed via: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Math/WG/Charter I think this contains no surprises, but a new item on our meeting agenda is to actually come up with a real charter. We had a place on the agenda to discuss such generalities, so I don't think this will take us off track, but we'll have to settle on specific wording. Susan Hardy will be posting an announcement to W3C members about _creation_ of the Working Group and asking if anyone wishes to join the Group. We may then have some new members, but my sense is that Dave made a good effort to canvass the organizations he thought might be interested. We'll see. In this announcement will be a statement to the effect that we will "meet" sometime around the end of November or early December. Tim assures me that this can be a teleconference, so I don't have the objections I did when I thought a face-to-face meeting might be required at that time. -RonReceived on Friday, 6 September 1996 14:45:50 UTC
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