If it will be Amsterdam, I might throw a party with good food, beer, wine and non-alcoholic-drinks, I live 10km from Amsterdam, every hour four trains to the village I live.
But I agree with other possibilities too, if it is not too far from Amsterdam, within Europe is OK for me (best near a town). regards, Bert Koray Atalag schreef: > 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] 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 > > >
