Re: Meeting at Music Encoding Conference 2016, this Friday?

Hi Jim and others,

As one of the Notation CG co-chairs, I had been planning to attend the
entirety of MEC, both to make more connections within the MEI community and
also to try and instigate an unconference track relating to the work of the
CG.

Unfortunately, I came down early this week with a respiratory infection
that put me completely out of commission, and I have had to cancel my plans
to go to Montreal. I'm just now surfacing to the point of catching up with
a bit of email and I'm still not really back in the saddle.

This is a terribly disappointing turn of events to me. It obviously
prevents the sort of personal communication that I feel would be most
valuable to advance our work. But I would encourage anyone at MEC who wants
to do so, please go ahead and have a discussion about the W3C Notation
initiative anyway (and hopefully capture and share the discussion!). I am
in touch with the MEC conference chair Andrew Hankinson and hope to follow
up after MEC with anyone who's interested in further dialogue.

Best,

.            .       .    .  . ...Joe

Joe Berkovitz
President, Noteflight LLC
Co-chair W3C Music Notation Community Group

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <from.w3c@jdlh.com> wrote:

> Hello, everyone:
>
> Well, here we are, the Music Encoding conference is upon us. I am quite
> enjoying the presentations. Look for #MEC2016 on Twitter.
>
> Are there others at the conference who would like to see a W3C Notation CG
> face-to-face meeting here, on the Friday "unconference" day?  Are any of
> the community group leaders going to be in attendance?
>
> If yes, you are welcome to reply individually to me, and I'll announce how
> much interest I got. This is just an informal poll, of course. The real
> action will be at the start of Friday: if someone convenes the talk, and if
> people attend, that is what will make it happen.
>
> Best regards,
>      --Jim DeLaHunt
>
> On 2016-04-01 15:48, Joe Berkovitz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think this idea is terrific. As a co-chair of the W3C Notation CG I'm
> very interested in fostering more contact
> > and exchange between the CG and the MEI community. The MEC unconference
> day seems like a perfect
> > opportunity for this.
>
> On 2016-03-25 15:30, Christopher Antila wrote:
>
> Hi everyone:
>
> I haven't seen anything about this yet, so I was just wondering whether
> there are any plans to hold a Community Group event during the Music
> Encoding Conference this May in Montreal. I know MEC is one of the smaller
> conferences, but the "unconference" day seems like a great opportunity to
> help those of us get involved who can't necessarily make it to the larger
> events.
>
> http://music-encoding.org/community/conference/
>
>
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