Re: W3C invites W3C Community Groups to meet at TPAC 2016

I'm only in the CG, as I lost my affiliation. I will still be attending TPAC though.

Sangwhan Moon

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 8:07 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> For info.
> 
> I know there's a big overlap between members of the Touch Events CG and the more formal Pointer Events WG, and there's a change that the latter will already be planning to attend the TPAC...but in case there's further interest from CG members, feel free to discuss this here :)
> 
> P
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> Subject: W3C invites W3C Community Groups to meet at TPAC 2016
> Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:39:46 +0000
> Resent-From: public-touchevents@w3.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:39:29 +0100
> From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
> Organisation: W3C
> 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/
> 
> -- 
> Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  http://www.w3.org
> mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
> 
> 
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Received on Friday, 29 January 2016 15:27:24 UTC