Location

Hornbake Library - South Wing (i.e. enter from the side next to the road)
Room 2119
University of Maryland College Park

(This is next to the new HCIL space but there is still no HCIL signs at the entrance of the building)

Map of the building/campus: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/contact/parking.shtml. For orientation: The UMUC Marriott is the building at the top most of the map (which is west!). The Quality Inn is outside the bottom left of the map on Rt 1.

We'll have internet but no phone in the main room.  Skype will have to do (but we can use the phone in the HCIL space if needed)

For breakout sessions I reserved the HCIL lab space + room 4115, all day Friday and Saturday morning.

Agenda

Fri Dec. 14

• 8:30 coffee, muffins/bagel-like-food, Orange Juice arrives from food services
• 9am meeting starts
• 12:30 lunch arrives
• 5pm adjourn
• 7pm dinner at Tiffin (indian restaurant : http://www.tiffinrestaurant.com/aboutus.htm
  It's a five minute ride from campus, and locals should be able to manage the transportation

Sat Dec 15

• 8:30
• 9 am (we'll make our own coffee, and we'll bring muffins/bagels and Orange Juice)
• probably around 1pm: adjourn

Who would like vegetarian lunch on Friday?

Pib.

Who is coming: Hotel, arrival time etc.

• Matt K. (Maryland) - Local
• Catherine (Maryland) - Local
• Tanya (Maryland) (probably) - Local

• Stan (Alberta) - Marriott, Arriving 20:51 Thurs Dec 13
• Milena (Alberta) - Marriott
• Kirsten (Alberta) - Marriott, Arriving 09:00 Fri Dec 14

• John U. (Illinois) Arrives 12/13/07, National at 20:45 - Mariott Inn & Conference Center - Departs Sat.  17:20
• Amit (Illinois) -Inn and Conference Center: Arrival- Thursday Evening : Departure- Sat Afternoon.
• Loretta (Illinois)- Hotel: Inn & Conference Center, Arrive: Thurs afternoon, Depart: 2:35pm from National airport

• John Norstad (Northwestern). College Park Inn. Arriving Thurs. afternoon (at Dulles ). Spending Thurs. afternoon and evening doing some sightseeing and eating dinner in D.C., arriving at hotel late Thurs. evening. Leaving Sat. afternoon for 5:20 pm flight home.
• Phil "Pib" Burns (Northwestern). I am staying at the Mariott. I am arriving late Thursday afternoon and leaving early Saturday afternoon (flight departs Reagan at 14:47).
• Bill Parod(Northwestern) Quality Inn and Suites ; Arrive Thursday ; Depart Saturday afternoon
• Martin Mueller (Northwestern) - Inn and Conference Center. Arrive Thursday lat afternoon, leave Saturday afternoon

• Sara Steger (Georgia) - Inn and Conference Center; Arrive Thursday (6:05 pm), Depart Saturday (2:55pm)

• Stephen Ramsay (Nebraska) - Inn and Conference Center: Arrive Thursday (7:02 pm), Depart Sunday (11:30 am)
• Brian Pytlik Zillig (Nebraska) - Inn and Conference Center: Arrive Thursday (11:48 am), Depart Saturday (3:40 pm)

travel

People should plan to travel to the meeting on December 13, with travel home the afternoon of the 15th.

National/Reagan is the way to go. BWI is your second choice. Don't do Dulles.

National is on the Metro (light rail) system. Both the Yellow and Blue lines stop there. Either will get you up to College Park, but most direct is to take the Yellow to Fort Totten, then
transfer to a Green line train to College Park. This will take 45 minutes to an hour depending on time of day and cost about $3.50-4.00 (again, depending on time of day).

BWI means a taxi or shuttle down to College Park, 30 minutes to an hour
depending on traffic.

If you wish more travel info http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/contact/travel_to_hcil.shtml

Hotels

here is the hotel information compiled for the TEI conference recently: http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/hotels.html

Most convenient:

• UMUC Mariott Inn and Conference Center is new and nice and convenient but can be expensive (prices vary greatly depending on season/demand). You need a cab from metro, or figuring out 2 UMd shuttles.

• Quality Inn and Suites is even more convenient as you can walk from/to the metro station (probably 10 minutes), but a much lower grade hotel.

Starbucks near both hotels

If you need help with pickups/drop off let Catherine or Matt know.