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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephan Boldt Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:02 PM To: [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >
