atw: Re: Report on TCANZ Conference

Jill Nicholson wrote,
 > I did not know the NZ conference was on - they should advertise more 
heavily here.

I agree, and I mentioned this to the organisers. I did have an announcement 
in my Technical Editors' Eyrie Newsletter 74, dated 30 July 2003, but the 
organisers should have sent notices to the two ASTC newsletters and the 
STC-Australia chapter -- and I don't think they did.

This is a symptom of a more general problem: we in Australia and NZ have 
not been good at getting out announcements of many conferences (including 
the ASTC-NSW conference) well in advance, so travel and other arrangements 
are often difficult for people who must plan months in advance. And we 
aren't very good at sending those announcements around widely enough, even 
when we do get them out in a timely manner.

I realise that in some cases the exact dates don't get firmed up as soon as 
the organisers would like, but that shouldn't stop us from making some 
general announcements as far in advance as possible.

Regards, Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
The Technical Editors' Eyrie  http://www.jeanweber.com/

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