Re: April face-to-face meetings for HTML and WebApps

Regarding the checklist: perhaps these things are only relevant if there
are Christian/Jewish/Muslim people in the group. And if there are people
that prefer not to meet on Saturday. It seems to me more reasonable to
expect people with prior commitments, that plan to attend, to speak up, and
expect the rest to understand and try to come to a consensus. That's why
people ask for objections anyway.

Andres Riofrio
<riofrios@gmail.com>


On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:11 AM, timeless <timeless@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's Passover [1]. Passover begins in the evening of Friday, April 6,
> 2012, and ends in the evening of Saturday, April 14, 2012.
>
> As it happens, your calendar hits the *end* of Passover which is just
> as major of a holiday as the beginning (the middle is somewhat minor).
> At the risk of being seen as supporting an information source [2].
>
> The last silicon valley item was an offline webapps thing on a
> Saturday. That wasn't well considered and I have yet to see minutes
> from it.
>
> But seriously: Please NO. While I love my friends in the bay area and
> wouldn't mind visiting them for the holiday, it'd pretty much suck.
>
> Dear chairs, could you please create a basic meeting scheduling check-list:
> 1. Does it hit a Christian holiday?
> (I'm not sure what these are, perhaps Good Friday?)
> 2. Does it hit a Jewish holiday?
> (google or wikipedia, or timeanddate [3])
> 3. Does it hit a Muslim holiday?
> (Ramadan)
> 4. Is it a Saturday?
> Bad (see 2)
>
> To help you out on that last one:
> Ramadan begins in the evening of Friday, July 20, 2012, and ends in
> the evening of Monday, August 20, 2012.
>
> Thank you for asking in advance so that we can *not* do it at this time.
>
> [1]
> http://www.google.com/search?client=ms-rim&hl=en&q=passover%202012&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&channel=browser
> [2] http://mobile.askmoses.com/article/207,195848/What-is-Chol-Hamoed.html
> [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/
>
> On 2/6/12, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > in order to facilitate the work of the WebApps and HTML Working Groups,
> > I've been discussing with the Chairs the idea of having a face-to-face
> > in the silicon valley in April. Due to various constraints (WWW2012 and
> > Google I/O most notably), I ended up with the second week of April:
> >
> > - WebApps WG: April 10/11 (Tuesday/Wednesday)
> > - HTML WG: April 12/13 (Thursday/Friday)
> > - WebAppSec: April 11/12 (Wednesday/Thursday)
> >
> > Is anybody else aware of other potential conflicts?
> >
> > The WebKit contributor meeting dates are not set yet but may overlap
> > with webapps for one day (April 10)...
> >
> > I asked the Chairs to ask for objections to those dates as well,
> >
> > Note that this meeting would be in addition to the TPAC 2012 in November
> > (Lyon, France).
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
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>
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