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Re: Planning of a computing school Sienna (Florence-2005)

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• Subject: Re: Planning of a computing school Sienna (Florence-2005)
• From: David Watkin <david.watkin@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk>
• Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:48:19 GMT

Hello
	The first issue is to decide on the overall nature of the school.
1) If it is to learn how to use existing programs, then there must be 
sufficient number of the right kinds of computers.  I do not favour this 
- it would be better in a separate one-day workshop for each program
2)To get experience with new(ish) computing languages.  This could be 
interesting, but not for a whole week. This would also require many 
computers and suitable compilers/interpreters
3) To learn about some of the  special (transportable) internal workings 
of existing programs.  This interests me, and only requires a video 
projector for demos and power-points
4) New algorithms. and programming strategies.  Same requirements as 3).

In any case, by 2005 we can expect every particpant to have a laptop. 
It might be useful to have access to a CD burner for those laptops which 
cannot be linked for file transfer.

In view of this, the proposal sounds very good to me.

best wishes
	David

a.l.spek wrote:
> Dear Members of the IUCr Computing Commission,
> 
> Preliminary investigations concerning the feasability to organise
> a computing school prior to the Florence-2005 IUCr meeting resulted in
> the following proposal by our colleages in Siena (see below).
> 
> Please comment whether you think that this offer suites our needs.
> All other ideas welcome.
> 
> Ton Spek
> 
> Chairman IUCr-computing commissiion
> 
>       ================================================ 
> Dear Prof. Spek,
> 	sorry for the late replay. As Carlo Mealli told you, we shall be 
> happy to cooperate with IUCr, in the case that your commission feels useful
> to have a Computing School in Siena or another Italian site, just before the
> Florence meeting.
> 
> 	Please know that in Siena there is an old monastery, now used for small
> meeting and schools. The place (Pontignano) is in Chianti, eight km from 
> the town, 5-6 km from the main University buildings. There are a few
> lecture rooms, already equipped with some PC and the necessary connections;
> the number of computers might be increased, anyway. In the site, there is
> no modern, up-dated computing room with several working stations and
> hyper-velocity connections.
> 	Therefore, the main drawbacks for Pontignano derive from the beauty
> of the site, and they are its being not just in the University center, 
> and poorly equipped for a computing school.
> 
> 	I have enquired about the lodge possibilities. In the time slot Aug.
> 18-23, 2005, there are available: 
> 18 twin-beds rooms	at	103 euro per room (two people), full board per day
> 20 single room       at     62   "             one          "
> 4  double-bed rooms  at     103  "             two          "
> Something more (e.g., 200 euro per day) should be allotted for general
> expenses (lecture rooms, etc.).
> 	So, the average cost (full board) would be close to 60-70 euro per day,
> per person. Maximal number of guests would be close to 60.
> 
> 	I hope that this information may help you in the next planning of the
> school. In affirmative case, we would need an early reservation of the site
> (say before June 2003).
> 
> 	Waiting to hear from you, best wishes
> Marcello Mellini
> 
> 

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