Calling Notice for the 27Th Meeting of WG8/TF2 on 2007-06-21/26 and of the 39Th Meeting

Calling Notice for the 27th meeting of WG8/TF2 on 2007-06-21/26 and of the 39th meeting of WG8 on 2007-06-27/29,

held in Konstanz, Germany

Meeting location

At the kind invitation of the Governor of the Bodensee area the groups TF2 and WG8 are kindly invited to hold their meetings at his headquartes, called "Landratsamt" in the heart of the beautiful town Konstanz. The address is:

Landratsamt Konstanz

Kleiner Sitzungssaal

1st floor, room No. D 101

Benediktinerplatz 1

78467 Konstanz

Contact person of the host:

Mrs. Regina AUER, Phone: +49 7531 800-1301, Fax: +49 7531 800-1302,

E-mail:

Due to security reasons (the Landratsamt is a Government building !) unfortunately no wireless internet access can be provided.

Registration for the meetings

For registering for the TF2 and WG8 meetings, TF2 and WG8 Delegates wishing to attend either or both of those meetings please send an e-mail to WG8's Secretary Béla Gipp () and to the host Mrs. Regina Auer (). Registrations should be received until mid of June 2007 in order to optimally prepare the meeting room facilities and the catering.

This registration e-mail should indicate, which meeting of

- WG8/TF2 (2007-06-21/26)

- WG8 (2007-06-27/29)

you will attend and on which days of those (no meeting will be held on the weekend days 23rd and 24th of June), and whether you wish to join for the dinner evening on the 27th of June, single or accompanied by a person.

Further you please provide your

- first name

- last name

- country which you represent

- company address.

The received registration e-mail from you will lead to an update of the TF2 & WG8 attendance list, which will be retrievable from the WG8 Members's Homepage ( ) or by clicking on:

from next week on.

Accomodation

Several hotels are close to the meeting location, one of which may be the most convenient one, because it is just opposite from the station, at which the trains arrive from the international airport Zurich (Switzerland). The meeting location is 15 minutes walking distance far or 2 bus stations (any bus in front of the hotel going North can be taken), which is a 3 minutes drive. The details of this hotel are:

Mercure Hotel Halm Konstanz

Bahnhofplatz 6

78462 Konstanz

Tel.: +49 7531 1210

Fax.: +49 7531 21803

E-Mail:

Internet:

Contact person is Mrs. Mandy KINDEL, Reservation Department.

Under the booking code "ISO WG8" you may benefit from the special rate of 121 EUR for a single room and 136 EUR for 2 persons in a double room. The rate includes breakfast. Parking fees for a car are reasonable. Internet access is provided by an external provider, but is also available under reasonable costs, as the paid internet time (either via pre-payment at the reception desk or via credit card) can be stopped and re-activated arbitrarily, like in the AFNOR facilities at the WG8 meetings in Paris in 2006).

Unfortunately, you have to decide very fast, whether you wish to take this offer. If so, you have to book until the 16th of May. It has been before the 9th, but at the kind exceptional offer from Mrs. Kindel the reservation period was prolonged to the 16th.

You will receive more information in the next few days.

Invitation for a dinner evening

Delegates and accompanied persons are kindly invited for a dinner, possibly combined with a ferry tour to a scenic town at the Bodensee on the evening of the 1st WG8 meeting day, i.e. the 27th of June 2007. Further details will follow.

Transportations

Konstanz can best be reached via plane arriving either at Zurich International Airport (Switzerland) or via Stuttgart (Germany). From Zurich Airport there is a direct train to Konstanz, which takes about 60 minutes and is operated every half an hour. Also Stuttgart Airport would be possible, however the train connection from Stuttgart to Konstanz is not convenient. To use a rental car, however, would be fine, because the car drive also takes only an hour from Stuttgart Airport to Konstanz.