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

I expect to attend TPAC as well.  I'd love to have a TECG meet-up - even if
just to finally get to meet face-to-face :-)

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Sangwhan Moon <sangwhan@iki.fi> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > 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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