On Wednesday and Thursday, June 8 and 9, 2016, LTG staff will convene at Oscarsborg Hotell for an off-site retreat. The plan is to leave Oslo at 9:30 in the morning of June 8, so that we can take a ferry from Drøbak onto the island leaving at 10:45 (just now the web site for the ferry service appears down, but the hotel assures me the ferry runs). We will have four cars, with Emanuele, Jan Tore, Pierre, and Stephan as drivers. There should be a pay-for-use parking lot near the ferry terminal, and each driver should pay their transfer-related expenses and submit for reimbursement after the retreat. On June 9, we will finish (possibly with waffles) in the afternoon and plan to leave the island no later than 16:00.

To finalize our booking at the hotel, we need to provide a participant list. I have made informed guesses about participation and dietary preferences, but please double-check and either correct or let me know by Friday, May 20.

As at previous occasions, we will seek to combine scholarly and social aspects in setting up our meeting programme. As regards the former, all group members are invited to prepare an informal, high-level reflection on their current and anticipated academic interests, and on the larger group or even our field. We will discuss how to best make use of our time on the island jointly at our next group meeting, on June 2. Regarding the social programme, this aspect too is a shared opportunity (or responsibility, some might say :-).

• individual research statements: ten to twenty minutes each, including question time

• looking back and ahead: strategic and practical goals for LTG

• (re-)designing our MSc programme in Informatics: Language Technology

• reviewing and extending the ‘LTG Handbook’ (wiki pages; search for LtgOslo)

• review of public web pages for the group: action plan for updates