Re: Meetup at XML Prague 2014?

Mohamed, your use of the word "obviously" highlights an issue I've 
always had with conferences and symposiums and meetings. A slowly 
varying and relatively small group of people who basically all know each 
other. Before anyone suggests that I personally feel excluded and 
ignored from XML and publishing groups, and am being petty, that's not 
it, I am respected in my own small technological communities, and get to 
pundit there..pundit is not a verb but should be. :-)

Point being, and this is seriously a major point, and people have 
suggested it by mentioning tutorials and education. It's about outreach. 
A minor part of the problem is technology, the majority is education. So 
when people "silo"...and XML Prague is a "silo", just like conferences I 
attend, it's a problem. We all get a bit too caught up in believing our 
own stuff.

Arved

On 01/08/2014 08:04 AM, Innovimax W3C wrote:
> I forgot to say that I will obviously be there
>
> Mohamed
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net 
> <mailto:tgraham@mentea.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, January 7, 2014 8:41 pm, Liam R E Quin wrote:
>     > On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 14:39 +0000, Tony Graham wrote:
>     >
>     >> One alternative might be for people here to do the samples with
>     whatever
>     >> implementations we have at hand, but then the cook-off might look
>     >> half-baked.
>     >
>     > If people will learn useful things from it then it sounds like
>     it might
>     > be useful in and of its own right...
>
>     This is what I proposed late last night:
>
>     ----
>     Title:
>
>     Print and Page Layout Community Group @ W3C
>
>     Description:
>
>     Update on the activities of the Print and Page Layout Community
>     Group (PPL
>     CG, http://www.w3.org/community/ppl/) at W3C and demonstrations of the
>     XSLT extension functions developed by the CG for running an XSL-FO
>     formatter from within the XSLT transformation to make decisions
>     based on
>     sizes of formatted areas.
>
>     Presenter/organizer:
>
>     Tony Graham
>     tgraham@mentea.net <mailto:tgraham@mentea.net>
>
>     Expected length of session:
>
>     15-30 minutes
>     ----
>
>     Indications are that you, I, and Patrick (and Jirka, who's more
>     likely to
>     be running to the airport to get some vendor's materials to clear
>     customs
>     than he is to be attending sessions) are the only ones from here
>     who'll be
>     at the pre-conference Friday.
>
>     The deadline for proposals for the pre-conference day is now
>     extended to
>     13 January, so we could revise our proposal, but I don't see that
>     I would
>     have time to do anything extra with the formatters that I have at hand
>     between now and XML Prague.
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>     Tony.
>
>
>
>
>
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