[sword-devel] SWORD Meet 2021

[Peter von Kaehne]

Post Covid frency to meet up :-)

1) I will be part of it if at all possible
2) I am very happily offering our house as a place to meet in Europe. 1
hr from Edinburgh. close to Glasgow airport, in the Scottish Highlands.
Beautiful, but not as summer like as Sienna. Admittedly. But I would
fly to Siena too.

Peter


On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 15:25 -0500, Greg Hellings wrote:
> I've been wanting to be part of one of these for years! I joined the
> community shortly after the last one in 2005. I would be eager to
> attend if possible.
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 14:30 Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>
> wrote:
> > Dear fellow CrossWire volunteers,
> >
> > It's been a really, really long time since we've had a SWORD Meet. 
> > They
> > have always blessed me greatly, getting to meet many of you and
> > having
> > the chance to spend a couple days fellowshipping, brainstorming,
> > coding,
> > and praying together.  We've had a few unofficial get-togethers,
> > usually
> > centered around other events we were already attending together
> > like
> > BibleTech, ETS, SBL, Fringe, etc...
> >
> > https://crosswire.org/~scribe/pics/photo.jsp?l=/2008/2008-09-18-Scotland/&i=imgp2234_swords.jpg
> >
> > But it has been over 15 years since we have had regular and
> > intentionally planned official SWORD Meets...
> >
> > https://crosswire.org/~scribe/pics/photo.jsp?l=/2005/2005-02-Travel/2005-02-25/&i=imgp0163_groupshot.jpg
> >
> >
> > https://crosswire.org/~scribe/pics/photo.jsp?l=/2002/0409_rome/2002-04-19_austria_to_cambridge/&i=pict0018_sword_group1.jpg
> >
> > ... when I was much thinner.  I miss the personal community
> > closeness we
> > had back then.
> >
> > I would really like to again offer 2 annual occasions for us to get
> > together in person-- once during May/June in Europe and once in
> > November
> > in the U.S. 
> >
> > U.S. - November
> >
> > Many of us already attend the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS)
> > annual meetings in November, which are conveniently aligned in
> > location
> > and time with with the technology sessions of GERT at the Society
> > of
> > Biblical Literature (SBL).  Those meetings rotate U.S. cities each
> > year,
> > but are always just before Thanksgiving.  I have met informally
> > with
> > some of you during these conferences, as well, but I would like to
> > start
> > scheduling a U.S. SWORD Meet around this occasion.  I propose
> > either a
> > couple days before ETS or the Friday / Saturday between ETS and
> > SBL,
> > when ETS is winding down and SBL is still spinning up, and IBR has
> > their
> > free annual lecture-- which would be fun for those coming who
> > officially
> > are not attending either conference but coming just for the SWORD
> > Meet.
> > ETS: https://www.etsjets.org/annual_meeting_overview SBL:
> > https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/annualmeeting.aspx IBR:
> > https://ibr-bbr.org/annual-meeting IBR:
> > https://ibr-bbr.org/annual-meeting/annual-lecture
>
> I feel lucky, here. I'm located physically in between ETS (Fort
> Worth, about 40 minutes north) and SBL (San Antonio, 4 hours south).
> I'm not free to carte blanche offer to host as I'll hopefully be
> married by then. But I would love to engage with folks, even if it's
> just getting lunch as you drive past my house between the two.
>
> I don't know how much time my upcoming nuptials will permit me away
> from work, but count me in for at least some part of a US meet during
> that time frame.
>
> --Greg
>
> >
> >
> > Europe - Spring/Summer
> >
> > Our previous meetings were generously held at Daniel Glassey's
> > apartment
> > in Cambridge, UK.  I always enjoyed Cambridge, with the opportunity
> > to
> > meet and be encourage by the kind staff and researcher fellows at
> > Tyndale House research library.  Daniel has been off serving with
> > other
> > ministries for the past decade so we probably need to find a new
> > location for our European meetings (unless Daniel reads this and
> > still
> > would like to graciously offer his flat).
> >
> > It won't have the same opportunities to meet with world class Bible
> > scholars that Cambridge / Tyndale House gave us, but we have talked
> > about meeting during the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh during
> > August, and
> > I have informally met with some of you during this occasion over
> > the
> > past years.  That's still an option and provides some fun around
> > our
> > meeting.  Hostels often have a common room were we can setup and
> > meet in
> > the afternoons.
> >
> > Another option is that I can invite you to my small apartment in
> > Siena,
> > Italy.  An advantage to this is, like Daniel's apartment in
> > Cambridge,
> > we can all sleep on couches and bunk beds and rollout mattresses on
> > the
> > floor and not have any accommodation expenses.  I also have fiber
> > internet there and can be sure to have desk space and whiteboards
> > handy
> > and can take us to amazing pizza and gelato.
> >
> > ______________________
> >
> > What would be the interest for attending either event and what
> > feedback
> > do you have to my suggestions for time and venue?
> >
> > Troy
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