Date: 08 March 2005 To: J3 From: Mallory North Subject: Meeting 172 Announcement J3 Meeting 172 is scheduled for May 9 - 13, 2005, at NEN, the Dutch Standardisation Institute, Vlinderweg 6, 2623 AX Delft, The Netherlands. Attendees should be making reservations as soon as possible for transportation and hotel rooms. Local Hosts: Matthijs van Waveren Email: waveren@fujitsu.fr Cellphone: +33 6 71289094 Toon Moene Email: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Meeting Fee: $0.00 Meeting Times: May 9 - 13, 2005, 0900 to 1800 each day, including Friday. Location: NEN Vlinderweg 6 2623 AX Delft The Netherlands Website: http://www.nen.nl This web site has an english language section. Nearest train station: Delft Zuid Nearest airport: Amsterdam Schiphol MEETING ROOM NEN will make a meeting room for up to 20 persons available to WG5 for the week May 9-13, 2005. There is a space for subgroups near the meeting room, and if necessary, there is an extra office we could use. We will be able to print. A flipover is available, and a beamer will be reserved for the meeting. Coffee will be available throughout the day. NEN has proposed to pay for lunches in the cafeteria of the building. If we want drinks and snacks during the meeting, we will need to take care of it ourselves. This means buying a crate of soft drinks and snacks, like is done in Las Vegas. We would need to ask for a contribution of attendees at the start of the meeting. HOTELS There are several hotels within 5-10 minutes walk of the central Delft train station. See below for details. Rooms have been reserved at two hotels near the station, thus within walking distance of each other. There is also a web site for hotels in Delft: http://www.delfthotels.nl, where meeting attendees can reserve rooms at other hotels. We reserved 10 rooms for single occupancy and 10 rooms for double occupancy at Hotel Coen. The deadline for reservations is April 8, 2005. Hotel Coen Coenderstraat 47 2613 SN Delft tel: +31 15 2145914 fax: +31 15 2126384 email: info@hotelcoen.nl www: http://www.hotelcoen.nl Please reserve by email or fax, and mention the key name "WG5 Fortran" with the reservation. The rates are Euro 64 for single occupancy and Euro 80 for double occupancy. Breakfast is Euro 11. Please add Euro 3 tax to all rates. All reservation requests will require a credit card guarantee or one night's deposit at the time the reservation is made. Individual reservations canceled less than 24 hours prior to arrival will be charged. We also reserved 25 rooms at Hotel Grand Canal. The deadline for reservations is March 1, 2005. The hotel is in a picturesque place, near a Delft canal, thus the rates are a bit higher. Hotel Les Compagnons Grand Canal Breestraat 1 2611 CB Delft tel: +31 15 2157133 fax: +31 15 2134491 email: info@grandcanal.nl www: http://www.grandcanal.nl Please reserve by email or telephone, and mention the key name "WG5 Fortran" with the reservation. The rates of Euro 99.50 for single occupancy and Euro 109.50 for double occupancy. Breakfast is Euro 15. There are also deluxe rooms for Euro 110.00 for single occupancy and Euro 120 for double occupancy. Please add Euro 3 tax to all rates. All reservation requests will require a credit card guarantee or one night's deposit at the time the reservation is made. Individual reservations canceled less than 5 days prior to arrival will be charged. TRANSPORTATION There is a train connection from Schiphol airport to Delft central station. You need to change once, either at Leiden, or at the Hague. You can find the times on the train web site described below. The English web site for trains in the Netherlands is found as follows: Go to http://www.ns.nl Click on 'English' The NEN building is 5 minutes walk from the train station Delft Zuid. The connection between Delft and Delft Zuid is very good. There is a train every 15 minutes, and the trip takes 5 minutes. There is also a bus every 15 minutes, which takes 8 minutes to get to Delft Zuid. If a meeting attendee prefers to stay in the Hague or Rotterdam, that is also possible, as there is a frequent direct train connection to these cities. RESTAURANTS There is also a web site for restaurants in Delft: http://www.delftrestaurants.nl. There is a wide variety of choice. TOURIST NOTE The film on Vermeer 'The Girl with a Pearl Earring' recently came out, and this film gives an impression of old-style Delft. Delft is famous for its blue pottery. The Keukenhof with the tulip fields will be open during May. See also http://www.delfttoerisme.nl/indexeng.html