Re: Yesterdays Symposium

Hi everyone,

I fully agree. We had good discussions and lots of interesting 
contributions. And it was much fun.

Many thanks to Vivienne and Christos for the great collaboration! And of 
course to Shadi, who managed the technical stuff in the background 
(flawlessly as usual) and still had time to put in some encouraging 
comments in the irc channel, while we were busy running the sessions and 
all...


Kind regards
Annika

P.S.: +1 for Christos' suggestion.



Am 04.12.2014 um 10:58 schrieb Simon Harper:
> Thanks Christos, it's always different base don the perspective of the
> participant, I think that you guys did a great job of showing a
> professional face to us participants while seamless fixing the problems
> between yourselves!
>
> Regarding your PS I think you should add that the organisation wiki as a
> food for thought item.
>
> On 04/12/2014 09:45, Christos Kouroupetroglou wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was thinking to answer thiose emails by audio recording a message so
>> that you don't
>> forget my voice!... but since I got used to wirtting yesterday... I
>> will continue this way!
>>
>> It's really a mixed feeling. On one hand there is the big
>> disappointment from yesterdays
>> problems. I was anticipating this symposium so much and yesterday's
>> problems did not let
>> me really enjoy it. On the other hand seeing the transcipts evolve and
>> the discussions in
>> irc blooming I undesrtand that all preparations paid off. Thankfully!
>> My feeling from the
>> discussions on irc is that the symposium was very engaging and
>> interesting for the
>> audience. I was really surprised with that.
>>
>> So thanks Annika and Vivienne for handling in the most proffessional
>> way the problems and
>> Shadi for his efforts on the background.
>>
>> Hope to (finally) hear you all in the next week's meeting.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christos
>>
>> PS. Food for though, for future symposia. Is it possible to eliminate
>> the traffic on the
>> lines and maximise participation by having chairs and authros on the
>> line and broadcast
>> audio to everyone interested? They can then send questions and
>> thoughts via irc or call in
>> the last open session part.
>>
>> On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 11:07:00 π.μ. Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org
>> <mailto:shadi@w3.org>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Excellent teamwork everyone!
>>
>>     Congratulations to Christos, Annika, and Vivienne for a great session
>>     and for being so well coordinated and prepared. I really enjoyed it.
>>
>>     Your obviously very thorough preparations payed off and allowed
>> you to
>>     manage even the worst-case scenario. Murphy's laws always apply...
>>
>>     It would be great if you guys could record some of your advice in the
>>     wiki for future symposium organizers. Here are some of the
>> existing wiki
>>     pages but feel free to create new ones (and link them) if needed:
>>        -
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/__wiki__/Step-by-Step_Guide_for___Sympos__ium_Chairs/Editors
>>
>>
>> <https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/wiki/Step-by-Step_Guide_for_Symposium_Chairs/Editors>
>>
>>        - https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/__wiki__/Symposium_Mechanics
>>     <https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/wiki/Symposium_Mechanics>
>>
>>     Best,
>>         Shadi
>>
>>
>>     On 4.12.2014 09:49, WebKeyIT wrote:
>>      > Thanks so much for the encouragement Simon.  We sorely missed
>> Christos attending
>>     audibly, but he was in the background giving encouragement and
>> answering questions
>>     (thank goodness).  He also did the lion's share of the prep work
>> and his experience
>>     really brought it all together.
>>      >
>>      > Shadi, thank you so much for your technical assistance, I have
>> no idea how you
>>     handled it all, but that part was flawless.
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>>      > -----Original Message-----
>>      > From: Simon Harper [mailto:simon.harper@__mancheste__r.ac.uk
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>>      > Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2014 4:30 PM
>>      > To: RDWG
>>      > Subject: Yesterdays Symposium
>>      >
>>      > Hi Everyone,
>>      >
>>      > I just want to say a big thank you to Vivienne, Annika,
>> Christos, and Shadi for
>>     organising a great Symposium yesterday! I really enjoyed it and
>> thought the
>>     discussions were both interesting and useful. There should be a
>> lot of good stuff for
>>     the Note.
>>      >
>>      > I'm also pleased that the technical problems encountered did
>> not adversely affect
>>     the symposium - from an attendees point of view - and you guys
>> seamlessly handled
>>     everything.
>>      >
>>      > I thought it was very professional.
>>      >
>>      > Well Done!
>>      > Si.
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