Re: Next f2f meeting

For me Sapporo is best; I have other reasons to be at W3C TPAC too. Jeremy


> On 26 Mar 2015, at 09:23, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> It's also worth noting that ISWC and TPAC are *not* in consecutive weeks.
> 
> ISWC is Sunday 11 - Thursday 15
> 
> TPAC is Monday 26 - Friday 30
> 
> For those of us who feed from the trough of EU funding, ICT15 takes place in the intervening week (20-22) in Lisbon.
> 
> I mention all this because if the ISWC/TPAC dates were closer we could potentially have had the meeting in the two locations joined by video. If there is a location that a critical mass of people can get to, who can't get to Saporro, then we can have such a video link - but it's not as good as getting us all in the same place at the same time.
> 
> Suppose we had the meeting at TPAC Thurs-Fri 29-30 October and a video link to a meeting room in the USA (let's not think about time zones just yet).
> 
> Who could go to Sappro?
> Who could go to the US end?
> Who could host it?
> 
> And if that doesn't work, suppose we had the meeting on Thursday 15th - Friday 16th in Pennsylvania (i.e. overlapping ISWC by one day).
> 
> Who could go?
> Who would host?
> 
> (Incidentally, I'm discounting Europe as a venue - we did that earlier in the month).
> 
> And yes, our f2f meetings, wherever they are, are almost always 2 days. The idea is that each WG meets for the Monday/Tuesday or Thursday/Friday. On Wednesday we have the plenary. The 2013 plenary agenda [1] gives you an idea of how that day goes (I'm quoting 2013 as last year was abnormal due to 20th anniversary celebrations).
> 
> Basically there's a short talk from TimBL, some general W3C topic stuff, and then a set of unconference style breakouts (if you want to run a session on any Web topic, this is the time and place to do it).
> 
> I must also mention costs. TPAC is not free I'm afraid. It used to be back in the good 'ol days but now we have to charge $85/day - sorry :-( That's the early bird rate that applies to everyone, member or not.
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2013
> 
> On 26/03/2015 08:38, Ed Parsons wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> The intention is to have a two day F2F at TPAC. My preference as this is a
>> W3C activity is to have the F2F at a W3C event, but I appreciate the
>> logistical challenges.
>> 
>> Ed
>> 
>> 
>> On 26 March 2015 at 08:34, Bart van Leeuwen <bart_van_leeuwen@netage.nl>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'd rather have it at TPAC since there is another WG meeting there as well.
>>> I have no business at ISWC this year and leveraging the benefits of being
>>> at that conference means paying the full conference fee as well.
>>> 
>>> Met Vriendelijke Groet / With Kind Regards
>>> Bart van Leeuwen
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>>> 
>>> From:        <Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au>
>>> To:        <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
>>> Date:        26-03-2015 02:57
>>> Subject:        Next f2f meeting
>>> ------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Telemeeting (a) this morning discussed the proposed location of next f2f
>>> in japan for the last week in october, with the w3c TPAC meeting. There
>>> were several people suggested holding it collocated with the iswc in the
>>> us, october 11-15 in pennsylvania, USA instead
>>> *http://iswc2015.semanticweb.org* <http://iswc2015.semanticweb.org/>.
>>> Several people suggested they could make it there at iswc, but not to a
>>> sapporo event.
>>> 
>>> I am not yet sure what happened in the parallel meeting on this question,
>>> but there is clearly a demand for iswc collocation.
>>> comments? Perhaps a doodle poll is  called for?
>>> 
>>> Kerry
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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