- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:29:35 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:59 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: [...] > > 8. face-to-face meeting 8-9 November > > See [31]announcement. [32]registration closes 19 October. Hotel > > discount rate expires 3 October. > > Aside: [33]March 2007 call-for interest results, [34]article on > > ftf meetings. > > Could I suggest that we try to run this meeting in an unconference style? I believe you just did. ;-) I think you suggested it before. I don't have any direct experience with the unconference style, but I hear enough good stuff about it that I'm seriously considering it. I'm interested to hear from other WG participants. > That is, we should try to get several dozen participants to attend > (possibly by having the various companies in the group fund some people to > attend) and then we should all introduce each other and then split up into > small groups of 10 people or less and discuss whatever topic we feel is > interesting for an hour, and we repeat that for the two days of the > meeting. The logistics look a bit challenging... > This would require that we ask the W3C for several smaller rooms > instead of just the one room (or maybe we can meet in the corridors and in > the lobbies, it might attract other people and get them involved, which > would be great). I'll try to ask somebody who knows the meeting space better what the realistic possibilities are. > I think this would be the most productive way to get to know each other > better, and it would really help with brainstorming. > > If this is not accepted as an agenda, then I'd like to request that we > have a complete agenda by the first of September so that (a) we can decide > whether it is worth attending before the hotel rate expires and (b) any > companies who are interested in funding independent participants have > plenty of time to decide who would be most useful given the agenda and to > arrange the funding for these people. This funding stuff looks complicated, but I'm game if you are. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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