RE: W3C Meeting in Amsterdam (October 8th) - Meeting location proposal

Thank you David (and thank you to Google for a generous offer to host the F2F).

All,

With this announcement we have two choices for the F2F venue - we can meet at the University of Amsterdam (with the benefit being that it is within the walking distance from the ATypI venue hotel but I am not sure if anything else other than internet connection is offered) or we can travel to Google Amsterdam office and spend the day there. Please respond to this email thread with your preferences since we do need to finalize the venue soon and let ATypI organizers know if we decide to switch the meeting venue.

We also need to finalize the date for the F2F meeting. October 8th doesn't overlap with any of the conference days (which is held on Oct. 9-13, see http://www.atypi.org/atypi-amsterdam-2013 for programme info) but is not an ideal choice for some of the WG members (Jonathan K mentioned he won't be able to attend due to another travel plan and Chris L. expressed desire to move the meeting date towards the end of the week). I already made my travel arrangements arriving in Amsterdam on Oct. 7th and staying there for the rest of the week (leaving on Oct. 13th), so I can accommodate any of those days (Oct. 8-12). Please note that Oct. 9-10 are the "technology track" of the conference where some of us will be presenting and, in general, I would like to attend as many of the presentations as possible; Oct. 10 is also the day when afternoon color fonts discussion (similar to what was held at TypeCon) is scheduled. The main conference track offers some presentations that will be of interest to many of us, so sacrifices will have to be made if we decide to have F2F day overlap with one of the conference days.

Please review the conference programme and indicate your F2F date and location preferences as a straw poll on the email list.

Thank you,
Vlad


From: David Kuettel [mailto:kuettel@google.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:15 PM
To: public-webfonts-wg@w3.org
Subject: W3C Meeting in Amsterdam (October 8th) - Meeting location proposal

Hello working group members,

For our upcoming in-person meeting in Amsterdam, we would be delighted to host the meeting at the Google Amsterdam office!

The Amsterdam office is close to the tram, has a cafe, espresso machines and of course WiFi.  All key ingredients for productive meetings!  Additionally, by meeting in the office, members of the Google Compression team, Chrome, and others who are eager to participate but might not be able to attend in person could easily join over VC.

As the office is eager to host the W3C meeting, we were able to tentatively reserve a large meeting room for the day, which would allow us to meet through the morning and/or afternoon with lunch and refreshments along the way.

Google Amsterdam
Claude Debussylaan 34
1082 MD Amsterdam

Map: http://goo.gl/o5tAEP

>From the conference hotel (NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky), the office is 15 minutes by car/cab and 30 minutes by tram.  Roughly the same distance from the University of Amsterdam (which is also under consideration for the meeting venue).

Please just let me know if there is interest, and then we could explore this further together...

Thank you,
David (on behalf of the entire team at Google)