Re: W3C SC Dinner in NYC

Sorry that I can’t be there in NYC with you all for the F2F meetings – and indeed the dinner. If that's the Benihana I think it is, I ate there once when I was at HarperCollins and it was memorable. Is that the branch that was the first one?

Graham

Graham Bell
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On 21 Jun 2017, at 12:51, Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org<mailto:bmccoy@w3.org>> wrote:

Hi Liisa and all,

Wow – and I’ve never been to a Benihana before, much less one in Manhattan! 😉 Thanks for arranging!

This will be a no-host dinner, correct? Just want to make sure folks are prepped. And under that circumstance your choice of venue looks even better (but, if you and Rick’s discussion included that PRH and Ingram were paying, especially if it’s coming out of Markus Dohle and John Ingram’s budgets, then… well, even then we could not look a gift horse In the mouth.😉 )

I believe Karen is on this list and we are presuming she is invited as ex officio adjunct to the Steering Committee.  But, we’ll both be at a meeting with Leslie et. al. at HarperCollins until 5:30, and I don’t think we could get to midtown by 5:45pm by any means of transport. But, folks could start without us and we could join 15 or so minutes late (+ Leslie of course, if she can make it).

--Blll

From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 6:47 AM
To: McCloy-Kelley, Liisa <lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com<mailto:lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com>>
Cc: W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: W3C SC Dinner in NYC

Will be there! Thanks Liisa

ivan

On 20 Jun 2017, at 18:32, McCloy-Kelley, Liisa <lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com<mailto:lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com>> wrote:

Hello All!

We discussed last week having a dinner together on Wednesday, June 21st in NYC before the F2F on Thursday and Friday. It seemed last week that about 7 of us would be in town and available.

I wanted to confirm that we have a dinner reservation at the original Benihana tomorrow night at 5:45pm.
Benihana
47 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019     212.581.0930<tel:+12125810930>

Rick and I thought it would be fun and I’ll admit that I’m looking forward to seeing Bill M with a drink in a tiki cup and one of you ending up with a shrimp in a pocket. (And Bill M- if you want to argue that it isn’t so foody- I’ve seen Bobby Flay eating there and having loads of fun learning from their main chef).  And maybe after dinner we’ll wander over to the Time Warner Center so you can check out the new Amazon Store that taunts us all.

I need two things from you-

  1.  Please confirm if you are going to make it so I can make sure we have enough seats around the steam table
  2.  Please let me know if the 5:45 reservation is too early or the place too cheesy- I can certainly find someone else if this doesn’t feel right


I look forward to seeing you all this week! (And for those who don’t make dinner- we’ll take pics)

Liisa


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