+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] 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
