W3C TPAC Conference and Silver Face to Face meeting

W3C TPAC Conference 2018 will be held in Lyon, France from Monday 22 
October until 26 October 2018.  Registration has opened and will have 
"early bird" registration prices until July 31.

The Silver Face to Face(F2F) meeting will be held on Monday 22 October 
and Tuesday 23 October.  We will meet with the AGWG group for part of 
one of the two days, but we don't know which day yet.  There usually is 
remote voice access, but keep in mind that Lyon is 6 hours ahead of US 
eastern time, so the Silver F2F will start at 3:00am eastern time.

On Wednesday, the W3C Plenary day will showcase presentations from W3C 
leadership and key members, plus breakout sessions where any attendee 
can propose a session. We will probably present a breakout session on 
Silver, as we have done at TPAC since 2016. The Plenary day (Wednesday) 
is optional, although personally, I find it the most interesting day of 
TPAC week. There are usually a number of interesting technical 
accessibility presentations.

The main TPAC page has links to hotel and travel information. The 
schedule page shows which groups are meeting on which day.  We are 
listed as "Silver TF and CG" on Monday and Tuesday.

Links:
TPAC main page (includes links to hotel and transportation) <- 
https://www.w3.org/2018/10/TPAC/
TPAC schedule page <- https://www.w3.org/2018/10/TPAC/schedule.html
TPAC Registration and Fees <- https://www.w3.org/2018/10/TPAC/#registration
TPAC registration form <- https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35125/TPAC2018/

Registration instructions:
You only need to complete this page if you are going to attend TPAC in 
person.  https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35125/TPAC2018/ You will need 
your W3C account to register. Questions 1-5 require no answers. For 
questions #6 and 7, select the radio button for "Silver TF and CG" in 
the column for "Attending as a participant in this group".  Questions 
8-10 can be left blank or select "I will not attend" or "No" (unless, of 
course, you are an AC or AB member in which case you don't need these 
instructions).  Question 11 asks whether you are attending on Wednesday. 
  There is a fee for every day you attend, so don't say you will unless 
you want to pay the fee for that day.  Question 12 is whether or not you 
will attend the evening reception (optional, no additional fee).  If you 
plan to stay at TPAC for the entire week, you may answer questions 13 
and 14 in the Observer column.  The chair will contact you (or not) to 
say that you have permission to attend a few weeks before TPAC. 
Question 15 is important if you have food allergies. Before you submit 
your answers, select the checkbox above the "Submit your answers" to 
make sure it sends a copy to your email.  If you don't receive the 
email, the form didn't go through and you should start again.

Then you need to pay at https://www.w3.org/2016/04/payment/tpac.php 
which is a fairly obvious payment page.  You can pay by Paypal or credit 
card.  W3C is doing something new this year which is a voluntary 
increase to the daily fee (which pays for the room, lunch and breaks) to 
help fund W3C Invited Experts to attend.  I don't believe that anyone in 
the Silver TF or CG is an Invited Expert and therefore is not eligible 
to receive these funds.

Please send any questions about TPAC to me privately unless you think 
that it is of common interest.

I hope to see many of you at TPAC!  :)

jeanne


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Jeanne Spellman

Received on Monday, 18 June 2018 20:40:40 UTC