Greetings, and updates?

Greetings* SWISIG*

*Happy new year *


*(I know it may sound late, but here in the far east  where I am the new
year begins this week)*

1. A few months back we opened a new draft so that members could enter
details about their work in the last year or two (since the last report),
but nothing is in there. Could members kindly enter stuff?  (work done,
articles, blog posts, papers, workshops or any activity)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14EX1EFhNAVwgPit27dSTjoqdHqLRscYNhpPneQf7GAg/edit

2. Let me remind everyone that group leadership is open! Please enter a
nomination for new Chair and co-chair anytime, and post to the list to
discuss
(pages to form to enter new nominations are linked on the group home page)

3. Coralie is inviting Communities like ours to participate in TPAC 2016 in
Portugal.  Being in the far east, its a bit of a long shot for me to
attend, but it could happen since my plans change.  Is there anyone in this
group in Portugal?
Is Roberto the nearest group member to Lisbon. Anyone planning to attend?
Discuss?

I have recently joined SENSORICA in Montreal,an open value network where
there is a request for input on semantic interfaces, so, compatibility with
other work, there could be scope for collaboration within the group's aims
at some point, when there's progress ther I ll ping

Rome wasnt built in a day


Warm wishes to all for a decent 2016 and Fire Monkey Year

PDM




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:39 PM
Subject: W3C invites W3C Community Groups to meet at TPAC 2016
To: team-community-process <team-community-process@w3.org>



Hello,

As part of an experiment, we are creating an opportunity for W3C Community
Groups to meet at the upcoming W3C TPAC, held in Lisbon, Portugal, 19-23
September 2016.

About TPAC:
Since 2001, W3C has been hosting yearly TPACs [1].
This five-day event allows Working Groups (WG) and Interest Groups (IG) to
hold their face to face meetings in one place, on Monday/Tuesday and
Thursday/Friday, and have the opportunity to meet and liaise with
participants from other groups.
A Technical Plenary meeting takes place on the Wednesday of that week, most
of which is organised as "camp-style" breakout sessions. You may look at
the TPAC 2015 site for more detail [2].

CGs at TPAC experiment:
* W3C Community Groups can hold 2-hour meetings on Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday.
* We can accommodate 4 meetings per day, so 16 over the entire TPAC week.
* The meeting room can accommodate 20 persons, classroom style, equipped
with a screen and video projector and speaker-phone on demand.
* The daily TPAC 2016 registration fee (TBD) is the same; it includes
lunch, morning and afternoon coffee/tea break.
* Outside of their Community Group meetings, non W3C-Member CG participants
may attend as observers those Working and Interest Groups meetings who
accept observers (some groups may not permit observers, this is at the
Chair's discretion.)

Slot allocation:
* The W3C Team will open the TPAC 2016 subscription of groups on 7 March
2016.
* The W3C team will proceed with slot allocation, including selection
should there be more than 16 Community Groups subscribing.

We are hoping this is an opportunity that you find appealing. Please,
discuss within your Community Group.

Let us know if you have questions or need more information, by writing to <
team-community-process@w3.org>.

Thank you,
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/2002/09/TPOverview.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/2015/10/TPAC/

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Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/