- From: David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 13:12:41 +0000
- To: public-vc-wg@w3.org
Hi Chairs I took "but you can go ahead and make flight reservations" as a firm commitment, which is why I bought my tickets. Given that Mr Trump now seems to be crumbling (according to the BBC News) we can hope that the US Govt will start up again pretty soon and Matt should get his passport in time. One can only imagine the upset if nearly a million US citizens still remain unpaid a month from now, not to mention those on food stamps and rent support. So let's not panic, and press on with optimism that things can only get better, including a published spec in the near future. Kind regards David p.s. The US is not the only govt up the creek. The UK govt has currently: a) signed a £million+ contract with a new ferry company that does not have any ships b) tried to recreate congestion to the ferry ports that take 1600 lorries a day and got only 86 lorries to turn up to test their procedures (imagine if we tried such a scalability test with our software :-) c) got defeated twice in the House of Commons this week d) are doing a massive U turn on no deal, after saying it would be a disaster and would never happen, and are now making provisions for it (and spending over £2billion on this). I wish I had £2billion to spend on something that could never happen. I have spend £200 on an airfare and am seriously concerned about this. On 11/01/2019 20:02, Joe Andrieu wrote: > Hrmmmm... > > As David commented, we've already told people the Barcelona dates are > firm for RWOT with the VCWG kicker. > > I myself was just about to start the process of getting travel approval. > > What would it take to get a firm commitment so we can make travel > arrangements? > > -j > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, at 8:23 AM, Matt Stone wrote: >> I'm so excited to piggy back on RWoT - especially in Barcelona... >> Unfortunately, I have a problem. My passport expires next month, and >> the US Gov't is shut down. I don't know that I will be able to leave >> the country in early March :-( >> >> Simultaneously, I just heard that Dan is working through some >> resistance to getting travel budget at the moment. >> >> Obviously we can't have a Face to Face without the chairs, so this >> puts our March schedule at significant risk. We can talk more about >> this in our Tuesday meeting. Of course, we can all hope that our >> elected officials will exercise good judgement and my issue will just >> go away.. We'll see. >> >> -stone >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:27 PM Daniel Burnett >> <daniel.burnett@consensys.net <mailto:daniel.burnett@consensys.net>> >> wrote: >> >> Group, >> >> The Working Group decided today to hold a face-to-face meeting >> March 4-5 in Barcelona immediately following "Rebooting the Web of >> Trust 8" (https://www.weboftrust.info/). >> >> We are working on the logistics (venue, etc.) but you can go ahead >> and make flight reservations. We will send additional details as >> we have them. >> >> We hope you can join us! >> >> -- dan (for the chairs) >> > > -- > Joe Andrieu, PMP > joe@joeandrieu.com <mailto:joe@joeandrieu.com> > +1(805)705-8651 > http://blog.joeandrieu.com >
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