Re: four days notice? Meeting on Thursday, June 26, 2008

Hi, Jonathan-

I am reluctant to delay the telcon for only one participant; my 
experience with telcon planning is that whatever time or day we pick, 
it's likely that someone will not be able to join.  If others also 
indicate they cannot join, or if we can all agree on a mutually 
opportune time for a telcon earlier in the week or early next week, I'll 
be fine with changing it.

I apologize for the somewhat late notice, but we are trying not to get 
bogged down in planning before we even begin.

Regards-
-Doug

Jonathan Chetwynd wrote (on 6/22/08 12:03 PM):
> Doug,
> 
> Please could more notice be given, and a later date agreed by members?
> four days notice is unreasonable, though I fully accept the time of day 
> issue.
> 
> I am at a SKOS conference on that day:
> http://www.iskouk.org/AgendaIR_June2008.htm
> 
> It's possible I could contribute via IRC, but do not consider this a 
> good option
> 
> regards
> 
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> 
> Jonathan Chetwynd
> 
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> 
> 
> On 22 Jun 2008, at 05:00, Doug Schepers wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi, SVG Fans!
>>
>> Jeff Schiller and I would like to welcome you to the SVG Interest 
>> Group.  Thank you very much for signing up for our little experiment 
>> in community building.  None of us quite know which directions the SVG 
>> IG will turn, but we have some pretty clear ideas on how to get started.
>>
>> We'd like to have a teleconference on Thursday, June 26, from 11:00 to 
>> 12:00 AM US East Coast time.  Given that we are spread out across the 
>> globe, it's always a challenge to find a suitable time that works for 
>> everyone, but this is a pretty good compromise, I hope.  We can plan a 
>> new time once we get into the swing of things.
>>
>> This teleconference (or "telcon") will be to plan our first steps, and 
>> to introduce ourselves and explain what our particular interests are. 
>> If everyone could write a brief note to the list, that would be a 
>> great start.
>>
>> For those who don't know me, I'm Doug Schepers.  My IRC nick is 
>> shepazu.  I've been an avid member of the SVG community since 2000, 
>> and for years I built SVG Webapps as a contractor (and just for fun). 
>>  My company, Vectoreal, joined W3C as an affiliate member a few years 
>> ago to help move the SVG spec in the directions we thought it needed 
>> to go.  As of a year ago, I was hired by W3C directly to serve as the 
>> Team Contact for the SVG, CDF, and WebApps Working Groups.  I am 
>> particularly interested in making SVG a "smart" graphics format, with 
>> extensible semantics and rich interactivity... I also like making it 
>> fun and pretty.
>>
>> I have always felt that W3C needed a better way to engage the 
>> community, and to find out where the designers and authors and users 
>> wanted the technology to move, not just leaving it in the hands of the 
>> browser vendors.  This Interest Group is our attempt to do just that.
>>
>> Again the telcon will be held Thursday the 26th, from 11:00 to 12:00 
>> AM EST (check the wiki for your local time).  The phone bridge number 
>> is +1.617.761.6200, conference 78444 ("SVGIG").  We will be meeting 
>> concurrently in a chat room, on channel #svgig (irc://irc.w3.org, port 
>> 6665); if you need help with IRC, just let me know.
>>
>> You can always find updated telcon information here:
>>  http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/Main_Page#Communication
>>
>> Best Regards-
>> -Doug Schepers
>> W3C Team Contact, WebApps, SVG, and CDF
>>
> 

-- 
Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, WebApps, SVG, and CDF

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