Re: Meetup at XML Prague 2014?

I am sensible to that

Then help us ! Give us hing on how to not become a silo (I think we are not
yet a silo, but we could definitely become one)

May be your experience at the Apache Foundation could enlight us ?

Mohamed


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca>wrote:

>  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> 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
>>
>> 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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