Re: F2F at TPAC 2017 this year?

Hi,

Thanks Maryam for the offer to host, and Lukasz for volunteering to help. It seems the Newcastle University premises would be more suited for such a workshop.

As you may have noticed, we did not have time to discuss this topic in detail on our call last week. As Frederick noted [1], now we'll need to consider whether we have the resources to put together a workshop. Any other volunteers who could help organise the workshop, please get in touch.

Setting the goals and scope of the workshop right is important, but equally important is to attract a diverse group of right participants across the industry to the workshop, including (this list is not exhaustive):

* browser implementers (in plural)
* web standards people (also outside the DAS WG)
* security and privacy experts and researchers (from within the W3C and outside)
* browser UI/UX experts
* web developers and related practitioners

All - please socialise the workshop idea within your network. Note that W3C workshops are open to the public, so participants do not need to be W3C members.

Thanks,

-Anssi

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2017May/att-0024/minutes-2017-05-18.html#item08


> On 12 May 2017, at 17:27, Maryam Mehrnezhad (PGR) <m.mehrnezhad@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to offer Newcastle University to host this event. We have bigger space for such an event (e.g. seethis or potentially this).  
> 
> The Security and Privacy theme interests us. Myself and a few colleagues also can contribute to the event whether in the form of a presentation or as a PC member.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Maryam Mehrnezhad
> Research Fellow in Computing Science
> Centre of Software Reliability (CSR), Claremont tower
> School of Computing Science, Newcastle  University
> Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
> Homepage: homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/m.mehrnezhad/
> Email: maryam.mehrnezhad@ncl.ac.uk
> Telephone: +44 191 208 8168
> Fax: +44 191 208 8232
> 
> From: lkasz.olejnik@gmail.com <lkasz.olejnik@gmail.com> on behalf of Lukasz Olejnik (W3C) <lukasz.w3c@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 2:35:53 PM
> To: Kostiainen, Anssi
> Cc: Frederick Hirsch; Dominique Hazael-Massieux; tobie@sensors.codespeaks.com; W3C Device APIs WG
> Subject: Re: F2F at TPAC 2017 this year?
>  
> Hello,
> 
> About the work load. 
> 
> Anssi, I'm volunteering to be in the Program Committee (or something along these lines). I would love contributing my research & industry (and regulatory, even...) background.
> 
> 25 is fine, but if we'd aim making it open (to the public, or so), it might be too little in the end.
> 
> But the place sounds good (although Berlin is more convenient!).
> 
> Alternatively... Why not at W3C or INRIA (Sophia-Antipolis)?  
> 
> Best
> Lukasz
> 
> 2017-05-12 12:38 GMT+02:00 Kostiainen, Anssi <anssi.kostiainen@intel.com>:
> > On 11 May 2017, at 20:37, Lukasz Olejnik (W3C) <lukasz.w3c@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you, Anssi,
> >
> > I agree that a dedicated workshop would be a great idea. I would also like to express an intention to attend and perhaps even contribute on the S&P side.
> >
> > I'm just wondering - do you think there would be options for funding the travel/etc?
> > Any idea where the workshop is to be held?
> 
> The workshop idea is in investigation phase currently, and there's no decision on it. The same applies for the DAS WG F2F outside TPAC.
> 
> I chaired the W3C's WebVR workshop half a year ago, and can say there's a non-trivial amount of work to be done to pull such a workshop off. But it pays off handsomely if you do it properly. We need a group of enthusiastic and committed volunteers to help make it a reality.
> 
> Related, I took an action [1] to investigate whether Intel could host such a combined DAS WG F2F meeting and "privacy & security" workshop in Europe, and found out we might be able to host a 3 day event at our London office in Canary Wharf. The caveat is, due to space limitations the maximum number of participants would be around 25.
> 
> Would someone else lurking on this list who'd have a bigger space be interested in hosting in Europe?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Anssi
> 
> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2017May/att-0004/minutes-2017-05-04.html#item11

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