Come again, Bill?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Bill Boyer <bjdboyer AT comcast DOT net> 
wrote:

> 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." - ??
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>
>
> -----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
> >
>



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Sam Rawlins