Re: 2014 f2f meetings

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Olivier Thereaux <olivier.thereaux@bbc.co.uk
> wrote:

> I just noted, however, that TPAC is (again) happening over Halloween. I
> recall that it was a significant hurdle for attendance at TPAC 2012 (which
> some of you may recall we had to cancel at the last minute for lack of
> participants), and don’t particularly want to re-live that.
>

Heh.

As the most vocal anti-scheduling-over-Halloween protester in the past: I
have given strong feedback that I will not be missing Halloween with my
daughters (ages 4 and 9, and Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year
for the 9-year-old).  I continue to give the feedback to the W3C Staff,
publicly and privately, that forcing me to choose between my family and
standards is not going to go well for standards.  :)

That said - by happy circumstance, the Santa Clara Convention Center (I'm
presuming it is again near there) is ten miles from my house - closer, in
fact, than my office.  I expect to duck out in late afternoon on Halloween
(which is on the Friday of TPAC week, when others are likely heading to the
airport anyway), but I will attend.  Were it being hosted in a different
location, I'd be skipping the last day, at least.