- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:15:17 -0700
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
I've discussed the idea of doing the HTML WG Face to Face meeting at TPAC 2009 in "unconference" style. Here's a little about what that would mean in practice: According to Wikipedia[1], "An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." The way this typically works is that, after a possible introductory talk, participants give short lightning presentations on any subtopic of interest to them, trying to spark interest in a breakout session. Then we gauge participant interest in various breakout sessions, and try to schedule them in a few parallel tracks (2 or 3 maybe). Past breakout sessions at TPAC 2007 included "data table accessibility", "how to write a test case for a test suite", and "media elements". Here's how I could imagine the timeline: Thursday, November 5 8:30 - 8:45 Gathering, meet and greet 8:45 - 9:00 Short introductory talk from the Chairs 9:00 - 10:30 Lightning Talks 10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment Break 11:00 - 12:30 Breakout Sessions 1 / 2 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Breakout Session 3 / Joint Session with TAG 15:30 - 16:00 Refreshment Break 16:00 - 17:00 Breakout Sessions 4 / 5 17:00 - 18:00 Breakout Sessions 6 / 7 Friday, November 6 8:30 - 9:00 Gathering, meet and greet, recap of previous dat 9:00 - 10:00 Breakout Session 8 / Demo from X3D 10:00 - 12:00 Refreshments + Breakout Session 9 / Joint Session with Web Apps WG and TC 39 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 15:00 Breakout Session 10 / Breakout Session 11 15:00 - 15:30 Refreshments 15:30 - 16:30 Breakout Session 12 / Breakout Session 13 16:30 - 17:00 Breakout Session 14 / Breakout Session 15 17:00 - 18:00 Gathering, discuss results of breakout sessions, figure out next steps, say goodbyes! That leaves room for 15 breakout sessions, plus the 3 prescheduled sessions with the TAG, TC-39/WebApps, and X3D. If necessary, we can slice some of the 1.5 hour time slots into 45 minute halves. You may want to start thinking about ideas for Lightning Talks - ideally these should propose an idea for a breakout session, but anything that might be interesting to the group is fine. And you don't have to overly prepare - it's an "unconference" so even ideas you have on the spot are ok to discuss. This is my rough thinking about how we could have a productive Face-to- Face meeting at TPAC. Regards, Maciej [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
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