Central Europe (and beer) sounds a good match to me :-) Certainly Amsterdam would be good from the perspective of easy transport.
Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary Health Care SG Group www.phcsg.org / BCS Health Scotland 2009/12/1 Thilo Schuler <thilo.schuler at gmail.com> > +2 Amsterdam or anywhere in central EU is fine. > > I am a strong believer in social activities. They could even involve > beer... ;) > > Cheers (what else could I say but this universal word) > -thilo > > On 12/1/09, Stef Verlinden <stef at vivici.nl> wrote: > > +1 (but any other location where we can have both a good meeting and a > > good social event will do). I like the train suggestion. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Stef > > > > > > Op 29 nov 2009, om 00:49 heeft Koray Atalag het volgende geschreven: > > > >> Hi Tom, having such a social get together would be very nice....I'd > >> vote for Amsterdam :) > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> -koray > >> ________________________________________ > >> From: openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk [openehr-technical- > >> bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Thomas Beale > >> [thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com] > >> Sent: Sunday, 29 November 2009 8:57 a.m. > >> To: For openEHR technical discussions > >> Subject: Re: informal poll: openEHR conference > >> > >> I forgot to mention: personally I would like it to be an > >> environmentally conscious event (in as much as any conference could > >> be), and one thing I would at least try for is a destination that > >> allow many people to go by train rather than by plane. Sam and I > >> once did London - Maastricht (which by the way is also a good > >> location) on the train in 7.5h (1.5h wait in Brussels) compared to > >> what we calculated as 5h by plane. But we got 6h work done, and 1h > >> drinking Belgian beer. I consider that a successful journey. Of > >> course not much can be done about long haul flying from the US and > >> down-under. > >> > >> Another priority for me would be the idea that it would not repeat > >> every few months like standards meetings, maybe not even every year > >> (a bi-annual event maybe?) - so we could afford to spend some time > >> together as a community. Also, I would put as much value on the > >> networking and social side of things as on the 'business of openEHR' > >> - which means finding a nice destination, one that works perfectly > >> well if people want to have a holiday, with kids, partners etc. > >> > >> The cost might also be an important consideration for most people, > >> although if it were say every 2 years, it may not matter as much as > >> for standards meetings which just keep happening. > >> > >> these are just personal thoughts; it could only happen if enough > >> people in the community would sign up to the idea to make it viable. > >> > >> - thomas beale > >> > >> > >> Mikael Nystr?m wrote: > >> I guess that the social activities would be quite important for the > >> community and they are hard to organize on airports and train > >> stations. I therefore vote for other locations than airports and > >> train stations. > >> > >> Greetings, > >> Mikael > >> > >> > >> From: > >> openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk<mailto: > openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk > >> > >> > [mailto:openehr-technical-bounces at chime.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of > >> Bert Verhees > >> Sent: den 27 november 2009 17:38 > >> To: openehr-technical at openehr.org<mailto:openehr- > >> technical at openehr.org> > >> Subject: Re: informal poll: openEHR conference > >> > >> An international airport/train station nearby would be good, it > >> saves days of traveling. > >> > >> Bert > >> > >> Op 27-11-09 17:25, Thomas Beale schreef: > >> > >> This is an initial informal question to the community about interest > >> in an openEHR conference / meeting, probably initially located in > >> Europe. Possibly activities: > >> > >> * presentations / papers on commercial & academic projects > >> * technical working design sessions for major upcoming > >> specifications > >> * clinical modelling design sessions / presentations / > >> discussions / debates > >> * meetings aimed at making decisions about the running & > >> governance of openEHR, enabling future organisational improvement > >> * professional and academic networking activities > >> * some purely social activities. > >> purely as an example of a nice location at which social and outdoor > >> activities can take place, Lake Bled in Slovenia has been suggested, > >> of course there are many other wonderful locations. I have heard > >> many requests for a conference over the last few years, so I wonder > >> what the reaction & interest of the community to this suggestion > >> would be. > >> > >> - thomas beale > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> openEHR-technical mailing list > >> > >> openEHR-technical at openehr.org<mailto:openEHR-technical at openehr.org> > >> > >> http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> openEHR-technical mailing list > >> openEHR-technical at openehr.org<mailto:openEHR-technical at openehr.org> > >> http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> [cid:part1.05030002.04040909 at > >> oceaninformatics.com<cid%3Apart1.05030002.04040909 at > >> oceaninformatics.com>] > Thomas Beale > >> Chief Technology Officer, Ocean > >> Informatics<http://www.oceaninformatics.com/ > >> > > >> > >> Chair Architectural Review Board, openEHR > >> Foundation<http://www.openehr.org/ > >> > > >> Honorary Research Fellow, University College > >> London<http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/ > >> > > >> Chartered IT Professional Fellow, BCS, British Computer > >> Society<http://www.bcs.org.uk/ > >> > > >> Health IT blog<http://www.wolandscat.net/> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> openEHR-technical mailing list > >> openEHR-technical at openehr.org > >> http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openEHR-technical mailing list > > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > > > > -- > Thilo Schuler > Morgenrainstrasse 9 > CH-8620 Wetzikon > > Festnetz: +41 (0) 43 49 707 85 > Mobil: +41 (0) 79 547 76 48 > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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