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Thanks Catharina,
I will liaise with the Swiss team and get back to
you regarding the updated location for the CC Europe meeting.
With best wishes,
Prodromos
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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:25
AM
Subject: [Cc-europe] Fwd:
[Communia-members] 23 January: Geneva-->Zurich
Dear all,
Please see Juan Carlos E-Mail below and please let's discuss an
alternative meeting for CC Europe as well.
Best,
Catharina
Begin forwarded message:
Date: December 4, 2008 10:46:31
PM GMT+01:00
Subject: [Communia-members] 23
January: Geneva-->Zurich
Dear
All,
I am sorry to inform you that after several months
of efforts
and dedication, particularly by our great
St. Gallen team, that is, Silke
Ernst, Jan Gerlach and Urs Gasser,
yesterday our attempt to organize a
joint workshop with
the European Broadcasting Union
collapsed.
According to the EBU people, in fact, the
choice of
available hotels in Geneva for the days
around Jan. 23 was too limited
(either too far
away or too expensive), which in their view
would
certainly cause very poor attendance by EBU members.
For political
reasons they did not want to run
such risk, hence the
cancellation.
(Apparently there is a huge event going on
in Geneva
during that weekend).
(Before you ask: yes, EBU people was supposed
to
handle hotel issues, and, no, they did not think
to reserve a block
of rooms well in advance.
And, no, postponement was not
feasible).
After having overcome much more substantial
obstacles
with EBU, it is very frustrating to fail
for such an easily avoidable
obstacle, but that is it.
We have to deal with it and move on.
The
plan is the following: the 4th COMMUNIA workshop
is confirmed on Friday,
23 January 2009, but
it will take place in (or around) ZURICH,
rather
than Geneva. Please plan your travel
accordingly. Jan and Silke will send
hotel information
shortly.
Regarding the content of the event,
together with the
Swiss organizers, we decided that it will
be an
actual workshop, that is, both plenary and parallel
session where we will
discuss the 1st year review
of the project and plan future actions,
work
on WG projects, such as, map the public domain,
write a new
mission statement for COMMUNIA,
work on public domain calculators, write
documents, etc.
It is obviously a plan B, but I believe there is a
lot
in favor of it:
1. it is timely, since it comes right after the
1st year
review (finished on Nov. 14th);
2. we have
several things we want to accomplish but
little time to do
so: a full day of common work
can produce something quite
tangible;
3. we will finally have time to collectively
prepare
the future steps of the network.
We plan to
send a draft program of the day shortly.
If you have any idea or
proposal, please share them with
us right away.
In the meantime,
please adjust your travel plans
(without fear of further uncertainties)
and stay tuned
for further info regarding hotel and program.
I am
confident that we will make the 4th workshop a great event.
Thanks,
best,
juan carlos
prof. juan carlos de
martin
coordinator - COMMUNIA project
http://communia-project.eu
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