Notes from meeting in Las Cruces Susan Hockey Here are some notes from the impromptu meeting in Las Cruces. Comments from those who were not present asap please as we do need to get a timetable of meetings organized. Susan ---------------------------------------------------------------- Notes from a brief meeting of the TEI Steering Committee held at Las Cruces on 8 January 1992. Present: SH, AZ, RA, DW, LB 1. Timetable LB said that he and MSM had taken on an unrealistic timetable for the preparation of P2. He had just come from Chicago where the editors had agreed to propose the following: (a) to send out P2 as a series of fascicules, each of which would be accompanied by the overall outline of 2. (b) to put a note on TEI-L explaining what was happening - such a note had already been drafted. (c) to keep to the planned timetable for P3. Those present agreed that this was reasonable, provided that a note was sent asap to Myrdal participants explaining what was happening. P2 was unlikely to be complete until well into February. 2. SC/Technical meetings It therefore seemed reasonable to postpone the planned SC meeting for 31 January/1 February until later, especially since the editors would be in Pisa for almost a week. The dates agreed by those present were 16-17 February in Oxford, to coincide with SH's lecture there. The technical meeting planned for Chicago on 23-24 March was also deferred, the new dates being 10-11 April in Oxford after ALLCACH92. 3. Budget AZ said that the contract with CEC for 200,000 ECUs had now been signed with the money planned to last until December 1992. It was agreed to allocate it as follows: (a) 40,000 ECUs for Oxford (b) 20,000 ECUs for Oslo (c) 70,000 ECUs for travel etc (d) 10,000 ECUs for dissemination The remainder is for overheads, and a related activity at Pisa. It was agreed to send 10,000 ECUs to Oslo immediately and that SH would write to AZ asking him to send 36,000 ECUs to Oxford for LB's salary until December 1992 and 4,000 ECUs for travel between June 1991 and December 1992. SH would ask MSM whether Chicago needs more CEC money now. The CEC needs: (a) a list of European members of the Work Groups within 3 months. (b) P2 with comments. In July, a copy of P3 with a report highlighting the European participation and comments. (c) Later in the year, a critical assessment of P3, noting issues which need more work and a programme of work for phase 3.