[Go] Dates for next GOC meeting - weekends?

[Suzanna Lewis]

It is really in Doug's hands now. Or should I say, the practicalities  
of what space is available and when.

For what it's worth, I'm personally neutral on mid-week vs. weekends  
(my kids are grown up now), but think cost must be a consideration.

On Jan 9, 2009, at 10:22 AM, D'Eustachio, Peter wrote:

> Would moving the meeting to Mon-Wed, or Wed-Fri (rather than Tue- 
> Thu, maximally far from any weekend) be helpful to minimize travel  
> expense / extra time wasted?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: go-bounces at genome.stanford.edu [mailto:go-bounces at genome.stanford.edu 
> ] On Behalf Of Judith Blake
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:57 AM
> To: Jane Lomax
> Cc: go at genome.stanford.edu
> Subject: Re: [Go] Dates for next GOC meeting
>
> Hi Jane,
>
> I think there are (or have been) flights now that don’t depend on  
> the Saturday night stay over.  In general, I think, people like to  
> be home on weekends and work during the week.  I know that I, we,  
> work weekends and travel weekends, but I myself am trying to  
> influence planning, such as I can, to allow people to be home  
> weekends.
>
> Judy
>
>
> On 1/9/09 9:09 AM, "Jane Lomax" <jane at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Is there any reason we don't have meetings over the weekends any more?
> We always used to. Over this side of the Atlantic we have the  
> problem of
> needing a Saturday night stay to get reasonably priced flights...
>
> thanks,
>
> Jane
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Judith Blake wrote:
>
> > Hi  All,
> >
> > The next GOC meeting will be hosted by ZFIN / Doug Howe and will  
> be held in Oregon.
> >
> > The dates are March 31st to April 2nd. That's 1.5 days of GOC, 0.5
> > break, and 1 day for ref. genome.
> >
> > Please hold these date.  Further details to follow.
> >
> > ************
> >
> > The tentative dates/plan for the fall GOC meeting are
> >
> > Sept 23-25; to be held in Cambridge UK; will include SAB meeting.
> >
> > Judy/go-PIs
> >
> >
>
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