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Dear participants, We are pleased to let you know that planning for the International Conference on Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation is moving ahead, and it promises to be an exciting conference. For all information on the conference, go to http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/index.htm

Please begin to make your arrangements now to attend the conference. Information about travel and accommodation can be found at: http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/travel.htm

Location: Providence University, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan

Dates: June 5-6, 2007
A welcome dinner for the guest speakers will be held on June 4, 2007, 6:00-7:30 p.m. at Freshfields Resort.

Conference program
The program is now available at http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/session.htm

Post-conference excursion: June 6-7, 2007
If you would like to sign up for the optional post-conference excursion to the Thao tribe (Sun Moon Lake) and Pazeh tribe (Puli), please email hthsu@pu.edu.tw before May 5, 2007. A fee of NT$2000 (US$65) in cash will be payable at the registration counter upon arrival at the conference. For details please see http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/trip.htm.

Conference Registration
All presenters (except for the invited speakers) and attendees must register for the Conference and can do so online at http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/register/register_en.php.
The conference registration will be handled by the Linguistic Society of Taiwan. To take advantage of the early-bird special rate, please register by May 5, 2007.

Exhibition sessions:
There are two exhibition sessions scheduled for those presenters who would like to display their language documentation websites, software, books, journals, products etc (see program for time). Contact hthsu@pu.edu.tw before May 5, 2007 to reserve a place for your display.
Shalu Local attractions: http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/shalu.htm

All presenters should submit their full papers no later than May 25, 2007 to hthsu@pu.edu.tw in order to be printed in the pre-conference proceedings. There will be an opportunity for selected papers to be published in a special issue of 'Language Documentation & Conservation', to be co-edited by Victoria Rau and Margaret Florey. LD&C is a new refereed, online journal by the University of Hawai'i Press. The URL for this journal is http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/.

Best wishes,
Victoria Rau
Chair, Organizing Committee