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Dear Tapestry Applicant:
It is our pleasure to offer you admission to the University of Virginia Tapestry 2013 Workshop and acknowledge your interest in its focus on influencing and improving the diversity in computing.
If you accept this invitation, please reply back to both Ms. XXXX and me.
Please read this entire message. It contains important information about next steps.
The workshop will start mid-morning on Tuesday June 23, 2015. If your travel plans require your arrival on Monday, housing will be available.
Parking passes should be available starting at 8:00 AM, Tuesday, in Rice 120. Housing staff will come to the workshop during a break on Tuesday to check people in and hand out keys. If anyone arrives Monday, we will need to make individual plans for her or him with the housing staff.
To help us prepare for the workshop, please visit two web pages.
The first page has you register with the Procurement Office at the University of Virginia. The page has you specify the necessary information for us to generate an honorarium check. Officially, the University considers Tapestry participants to be vendors supplying a service. Without supplying this information it is not possible to award the honorarium.
The second page is the participant section of the University of Virginia Tapestry website. Access to this page requires an account name and password. They are both set to XXXX.
In the Tapestry Participants section you will be able to specify
- Your intention to use the University of Virginia supplied housing. Each participant staying in the University of Virginia supplied housing will be provided with private sleeping quarters, which in our University's terminology is called a half suite. Each half suite comes with two single beds and shares a bathroom with another half suite.
- Indicate dietary restrictions or special needs.
- Indicate vehicle information in order for us to arrange free University on grounds (campus) parking during the workshop.
Please note that receiving the honorarium requires that you participate in the full workshop. Also note that attendees are limited to one Tapestry Workshop per summer.
It is our intention for everyone at the workshop to be a participant rather than just an attendee. We hope you will share your expertise and experiences during the workshop as well as through evaluation surveys and our Facebook page:
Cordially,
Jim Cohoon