We have a date! We meet on Tue 25th. Now we need a place.

[Enrico]

Hi all,

Thanks for your help. We meet on Oct, Tue 25th.

Nicholas, Thorri, Curran, Lori, Lynn confirmed their presence for the 25th. Cool!

@Alark: I hope you will be able to make it.

@Dominikus: I am sorry, that's the only date I could find.

@Jen: let us know if you can make it. I hope so!

I have no answers from Jason, Jerome, Kenny, Umashanthi. Can you please send me a short line to know if you are interested or not? Thanks.

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Now we need a place. Nicholas knows quite well the area so I would ask him to help us finding the "right" place. My personal suggestions for the place include the following:

1. It should not be too noisy - this is very important for me
2. It should serve reasonably good food (I prefer to spend a little bit more but having juicy and healthy stuff - exotic places are fine too)
   
3. I don't mind if we need to walk a bit but staying close to the conference is fine too.
4. It would be great if we can have a drink first and then dinner. Is that fine with you guys?

I propose we meet at the conference hotel lobby at 7pm. Is that fine with you?

Best.

[Umashanthi Pavalanathan]

Hi Enrico and everyone,

I am a Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (small island near India), wishing to purse my postgraduate studies in the US related to data analysis and visualization. I received a scholarship from ACM-W for conference attendance and also I am a student volunteer at the conference. I will be on duty until 6PM on Tuesday. Hope I will be able to join you all for the dinner at 7pm. 

Looking forward to have a great time there.. This is my first international visit...

Best Regards,

Umashanthi

[Thorri]

All your points and your proposal for meeting time sound good to me.

Thanks for planning this. I'm looking forward to meeting you all.

- Thorri

On Oct 16, 11:21 am, Enrico <enrico.bert...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for your help. We meet on Oct, Tue 25th.
>
> Nicholas, Thorri, Curran, Lori, Lynn confirmed their presence for the 25th.
> Cool!
>
> @Alark: I hope you will be able to make it.
> @Dominikus: I am sorry, that's the only date I could find.
> @Jen: let us know if you can make it. I hope so!
>
> I have no answers from Jason, Jerome, Kenny, Umashanthi. Can you please send
> me a short line to know if you are interested or not? Thanks.
>
> ----
>
> Now we need a place. Nicholas knows quite well the area so I would ask him
> to help us finding the "right" place. My personal suggestions for the place
> include the following:
>

>    1. It should not be too noisy - this is very important for me
>    2. It should serve reasonably good food (I prefer to spend a little bit

>    more but having juicy and healthy stuff - exotic places are fine too)

>    3. I don't mind if we need to walk a bit but staying close to the
>    conference is fine too.
>    4. It would be great if we can have a drink first and then dinner. Is

[Jason Sundram]

Enrico, I'm still interested. Tuesday sounds great, and I can meet int he lobby at 7pm. A pre-dinner drink sounds great.

Jason

[Enrico]

Ok great, it looks like we are almost set. It might be possible additional people will join us after the BOF. By the way, here are the info about the BOF in case you want to come:

Blogging about Visualization
Time: Tuesday 4:15-5:55pm
Location: Bristol
Description: A meeting of visualization bloggers, readers, and anyone interested in discussing visualization on the web. We will discuss experiences, uses, purpose, benefits, and future goals of blogging about visualization.

@Nicholas: can you please let me know whether you can help me to find the right place and make a reservation? If not, no worries I will take care of it. Thanks!

I am looking forward to seeing you all guys! Best.

[Nicholas Diakopoulos]

Folks, it's been a while since I lived in Providence, but I think Andreas Restaurant fits the bill: http://www.yelp.com/biz/andreas-restaurant-providence. It's about a 15 minute walk from the conference location but will get us out of downtown (recommended). 

 

Enrico, what's the final count? Shall I make the reservation for 7:30pm on the 25th?

Nick

--
Nick Diakopoulos, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate | Rutgers University
nicholas.d...@gmail.com  | http://www.nickdiakopoulos.com | @ndiakopoulos

[Enrico Bertini]

Looks and sounds great! Go ahead with the reservation, 7.30 is fine.

Thanks a lot!

[elizabeth schmidt]

I would love to attend too. I am a Senior Art Director just learning about data visualization and would love to join your dinner to just network and learn more. Thanks Enrico!

Beth

[Curran Kelleher]

See you all there!

Curran

[Enrico Bertini]

Great to hear you'll join us!

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Dr. Enrico Bertini
Universität Konstanz, Box 78
78457 Konstanz, Germany

Phone : ++49 (0)7531 88-4046
E-mail1 : enrico....@uni-konstanz.de
E-mail2 : enrico....@gmail.com
URL : http://enrico.bertini.me

[Nicholas Diakopoulos]

Ok, we're all set. The reservation is at Andreas Restaurant (http://www.yelp.com/biz/andreas-restaurant-providence) for 7:30 pm on October 25th for 12 people (that leaves room for a few people to join from the BOF meeting if they want).

Looking forward to it,

Nick

[Curran Kelleher]

Wonderful! It looks like a 20 min walk from the Westin Hotel (next to the conference center) according to Google. For those of us staying at the Westin or close by, shall we plan to meet in the hotel lobby at 7:00pm and walk together?

Best,

Curran

[Enrico Bertini]

I would try to gather the full group somewhere and go all together. What do you think? I was proposing the conference hotel lobby but we can do it somewhere else.

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Dr. Enrico Bertini
Universität Konstanz, Box 78
78457 Konstanz, Germany

Phone   :    ++49 (0)7531 88-4046
E-mail1 :    enrico....@uni-konstanz.de
E-mail2 :    enrico....@gmail.com
URL     :    http://enrico.bertini.me

[Enrico Bertini]

Great! Thanks a lot Nick.

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Dr. Enrico Bertini
Universität Konstanz, Box 78
78457 Konstanz, Germany

Phone   :    ++49 (0)7531 88-4046
E-mail1 :    enrico....@uni-konstanz.de
E-mail2 :    enrico....@gmail.com
URL     :    http://enrico.bertini.me

[datatelling]

I'm in! Hooray! Looking forward to meeting everyone.

--Jen

[Rick Walker]

Looking forward to it!

[Thorri]

Hi you all and thanks for a fun dinner.

Here's the list of handles and blogs from the blogging BOF:

Jan Aerts
@jaudot
saaientist.blogspot.com

Jen Lowe
@datatelling
datatelling.com

Hans-Jörg Schulz
@treevisproject
treevis.net

Jerome Cukier
@jcukier
jeromecukier.net
oecd.org/statistics/factblog

Dominicus Baur
@dominicus
bowr.de/blog

Enrico Bertini
@FILWD
fellinlovewithdata.com

Jason Sundram
@jsundram
runningwithdata.com
links.runningwithdata.com

TJ
@dr-tj
infowantstobeseen.org (soon!)

Curran Kelleher
curransoft.com/code

Sidhart (Sid) Thakur
vizbuzz.wordpress.com

Robert Kosara
@eagereyes
eagereyes.org

Eric Newburger
census.gov

Carlos Scheidegger
@scheidegger
http://cscheid.net/

Nick Diakopoulos
@ndiakopoulos
nickdiakopoulos.com

Thorlakur (Thorri) Ludviksson
@thorlakur
blog.datamarket.com/

[Jan Aerts]

Hey Thor!

Thanks for sending this around. I found it a very useful "meeting".

Btw: it looks that I have bad hand writing. My handle is @jandot instead of @jaudot

thanks all!
@jandot

[Lynn Cherny]

I arrived too late for the BoF, but my info (and blog!) are here:

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas
http://blogger.ghostweather.com

Nice to meet you all!
Lynn

> @scheideggerhttp://cscheid.net/

[Curran Kelleher]

Greetings,

It was wonderful meeting all of you!

I've started my blog about visualization: universalvisualization.org

Best,

Curran

@currankelleher

[Enrico Bertini]

I am just arrived back in Konstanz and I am totally jetlegged. I'll be back to you guys as soon as I manage to keep up with the mess accumulated during visweek.

Our BOF and dinner was awesome! Thanks a lot to all of you guys who participated, meeting you was great and I regret I did not have more time to talk more with each of you.

It looks like the BOF already has its effects. All the best to Currant for his blog, it looks like a great start! I've also heard from Robert that some you started a reply to S. Few post? Is that correct?

If there is anything else I can do for you please let me know. I will spend some time next week to think about how we can keep the energy accumulated in our meeting. Suggestions are welcome.

All the best,
Enrico.

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Dr. Enrico Bertini
Universität Konstanz, Box 78
78457 Konstanz, Germany

Phone   :    ++49 (0)7531 88-4046
E-mail1 :    enrico....@uni-konstanz.de
E-mail2 :    enrico....@gmail.com
URL     :    http://enrico.bertini.me