[LGM] Update on LGM 2017

[Jehan Pagès]

Hi again!

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello João,
>
> How are you?
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno <gwidion at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello folks -
>>
>> Sorry for the long time without news -
>>
>> as it is now - we have the venue next year, to be at PUC-Rio,
>> but I could not yet have the dates confirmed  due to their internal
>> bureaucracy -
>> (they only open up their calendar for scheduling the auditorium on October -
>> that is why)
>>
>>
>> We re asking for the dates of April 20-24th 2017 - so these will
>> probably be the cofnerence dates, but we should have these confirmed
>> only around the 3rd week of October. .
>
> So you already confirmed these dates on another email, but this was
> quite a limited view span (the mailing list). If not mistaken, no
> public announcement for LGM 17 has been made yet, with details on the
> dates, location and others, and no call for talk either. And
> apparently still no LGM 2017 website to refer people to.
>
> With the rest of the GIMP team, we are starting to get a little
> worried and we are not sure if we should start searching for an
> accomodation yet. Could you reassure us?
> Should we start planning our annual presence to LGM? When will the
> public announcement and the call for talks happen?
> Thanks!

It has been noted it is even maybe too late for some of our
contributors who need visas. If they still decide to try, what would
be the procedure for them to get an invitation? Can the inviting
university deliver them? Is there anyone to contact in particular?
Thanks!

Jehan

> Jehan
>
>> We are also planning workshops to take place in the hosting University
>> on  the days previous to the LGM - the local team should take care of
>> some of these actvities, but if anyone is interested in getting a few
>> days earlier to engage students from PUC and other attendees that will
>> be very welcome -
>>
>> We will post more details on how this should work later on.
>>
>> Please let me know any other questions you have - I had actually been
>> hoping to have the final dates before writing you again.
>>
>>
>> Venue website: http://www.puc-rio.br/english/
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>      js
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