Too bad it happened 3-months ago. LOL

"... has agreed to host the event in Sept 2009."


Bill Boyer
"The ride is the objective. The destination is just the excuse." - ??



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Stephan Boldt
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:02 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Syposium 2009

Wow! That's good news! The RRZK is about 300 meters away from my flat!! :-)
I'm really looking forwad to it! If you needs support preparing this event,
I'd really like to help!

kind regards,
Stephan

2008/12/19 Ian Smith <ian.smith AT oucs.ox.ac DOT uk>

> Hi,
>
> many of you on this list have contacted us at Oxford in the last few
months
> about the arrangements for the bi-annual TSM Symposium in 2009. We have
> been a bit coy about committing ourselves to this event for a number of
> reasons, not least that Sheelagh, the driving force behind the previous
> Symposia, has retired. Additionally, we can no longer so easily rely on
> the local administrative support that was offered in the past and that
> forms a major part of putting on the event. This means that the
> administrative and logistical demands will be too high on our small team
> (even with the in-house experience we now have) and we therefore have to
> announce, with considerable regret, that we will not be able to host the
> TSM Symposium next year.
>
> However, we have been in discussion with other educational establishments
> regarding this and the happy result is that Claus Kalle at the Computing
> Centre at the University of Cologne ( aka the RRZK - Regionales
> Rechenzentrum Koln ) Germany has agreed to host the event in Sept 2009.
>
> More precise details are not yet available but we wanted to inform you as
> soon as possible of at least the probable future existence of the event
> so that you yourselves can pencil in appropriate plans. We'd like to take
> the opportunity of thanking Claus for taking on this task, as well as
> Kirsten Gloeer at the University of Heidelberg for her help and
> cooperation.
>
> I'll leave Claus to make formal, further announcements, when he has them.
> We at Oxford hope that we can offer him and his team as much assistance as
> possible and I'm sure many of you will join us in contributing to a really
> first-class event.
>
> Finally, just to be clear, we also hope to stage the event again in the
> future - but just not in 2009.
>
> Regards
> Ian Smith
> & the TSM team at Oxford, England
>