Re: DID WG FF2F Meeting information, long version

Brent, I nominate this as the best F2F meeting prep message evar. Made me
laugh out loud and deeply appreciate what I am NOT missing!!!!!!

See you tomorrow (once I get over my fitful sleep in my too-small seat and
the child screaming in the seat behind me ;-)

=Drummond

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:49 AM Brent Zundel <brent.zundel@evernym.com>
wrote:

> Greetings DID WG Members,
>
> *Next week we have scheduled two days of intense discussion time*. The
> original hope was to meet in some exotic location, like Bhutan or Seattle,
> but instead we will be meeting in cyberspace. *The slide deck for the
> meeting will be available early next week.*
>
> To introduce as much realism to the experience as possible, I personally
> introduced an altered sleep schedule so that by the time *the first
> meeting starts on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, at 10:00 AM EDT [1]*, to me it
> will feel like the middle of the night. I also plan on spending 9 hours
> before the meeting sitting in a chair that's too small for me and watching
> movies while holding my laptop just in case I can convince myself to get
> some work done during my "flight."
>
> By the time *the second meeting starts on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at
> 12:00 PM EDT [2]* I will still be exhausted, but will be feeling much
> better after spending the evening before wandering through downtown for
> hours looking for just the right souvenirs.
>
> In order to prepare for the meetings, I have purchased some bagels and
> muffins and am letting them sit out for a couple of days so they'll be
> perfect for washing down with some tart grapefruit juice as I use *the
> connection information for the meeting [3] *to join the zoom call.
>
> Just before walking folks through *the agenda for the meeting [4]  *I
> will have my three-year-old disconnect the wifi and turn off power to my
> external monitors to simulate the inevitable A/V problems that go with
> every Face to Face meeting, luckily *the meeting information is also in
> the calendar invitation [5]*
>
> After the meetings are over, I will get back into my tiny chair and fail
> to sleep for another 9 hours as I "head home."
>
>
> [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Virtual+F2f
> +1&iso=20200630T10&p1=43&ah=3&am=30
> [2] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Virtual+F2f
> +2&iso=20200701T12&p1=43&ah=3&am=30
> [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-did-wg/2020Jun/0000.html
> [4] https://tinyurl.com/ycyhrv8w
> [5]
> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/evernym.com_qde6hsi7a0v9j113m8r8t62s4k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
>

Received on Tuesday, 30 June 2020 06:56:33 UTC