MultilingualWeb Luxembourg: Information for attendees

Thank you for registering for the Workshop, "The Multilingual Web – The 
Way Ahead", in Luxembourg next week.

**IMPORTANT**  Please come to the venue with your passport or other 
valid identification document, otherwise you risk to be denied access to 
the building. Security will check your name against the list of 
registrations we hold.


Here is some additional information you may find useful.



REGISTRATION
The registration desk will be open from 8am to 10am on Thursday 15th for 
you to pick up badges.  After this time, you can pick up your badge from 
the security guard situated on the right-hand side of the entrance hall.



GENERAL INFORMATION
The workshop will be held in room M6 of the Jean Monnet building.

The Call for Participation page at http://multilingualweb.eu/register 
includes information about how to get to the workshop and suggestions 
for hotels.

The program can be seen at http://multilingualweb.eu/program

If you have any logistic or technical questions, you can write to 
manuel.carrasco-benitez@ec.europa.eu. For questions about the program or 
the workshops in general, contact Richard Ishida ishida@w3.org.



LUNCHES & EVENING RECEPTION
You will need to buy your own lunch in the canteen of the Jean Monnet 
building.

We have organized a reception for the Thursday evening at 7.30pm, at the 
Hotel Parc Belle-Vue, 5 Avenue Marie-Thérèse, Luxembourg, to enable you 
to network with other attendees. There will be some finger food and 
drinks available. The reception is open to all (but only) registered 
attendees at no cost.  We look forward to seeing you there. See the 
program for a map.

***You will need to wear your badge to access the reception.***



POSTERS
A few people will present posters during the event. These will be 
located in the area around the entrance to the room where we will hold 
the workshop.



TWITTER

You are encouraged to tweet your thoughts during the workshop. Please 
use the hashtag #mlwlux.

You can see tweets from the Limerick workshop at 
http://topsy.com/s?type=tweet&q=%23mlwlim



FLICKR & PHOTO-SHARING

If you take photos during the workshop and upload to Flickr or other 
photo-sharing sites, we suggest you tag them with mlwlux when you 
upload. We will then try to link to those photos from the 
multilingualweb.eu site.


If you make information available using other social media channels, 
feel free to let us know and we'll see if we can link to that too.  We 
are also especially interested in tracking blog posts about the workshop.



IRC

During the MultilingualWeb workshop in Limerick we will have people 
summarizing the speaker presentations in an IRC channel. These notes 
will be available in real time, and will be made available later from 
the multilingualweb.eu site.

This is particularly helpful for those at the workshop who are unable to 
hear the speakers, or those who struggle due to language difficulties. 
People who could not make it to the workshop can also follow the gist of 
the discussions, since this will be available on an open channel.

In addition, you can *contribute* to the channel while it is running.

Here are details of how to follow the IRC channel:

     If you have an IRC client:
     Join the #mlw channel on irc.w3.org:6665

     Otherwise use the web client:
     Go to http://irc.w3.org/
     You will be asked to provide a nickname.
     Choose something short.
     Next you are asked for a channel.
     Type #mlw
     You will see the conversation taking place in the main part
     of the page. You can participate by typing in the white line
     at the bottom of the page.

You can practice joining the channel before the workshop starts, if you 
like.

You can see the (slightly cleaned up) IRC logs for the Limerick 
conference at http://www.w3.org/2011/09/21-mlw-minutes



See you soon in Luxembourg!

Richard Ishida



PS[1]: In case you are unaware, we have social media channels associated 
with the MultilingualWeb project on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You 
can find links to these from our home page at http://multilingualweb.eu/


PS[2]:  If circumstances change and you are unable to attend the 
workshop, please send a note to Richard Ishida (ishida@w3.org). Thank you.


-- 
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

http://www.w3.org/International/
http://rishida.net/

Received on Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:47:20 UTC