Fwd: Call for TPAC 2025 Breakout Sessions

Hello WebApps,

FYI in case you'd like to propose a breakout session on something you're 
working on.

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Subject:  Call for TPAC 2025 Breakout Sessions
Resent-Date:  Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:13:26 +0000
Resent-From:  chairs@w3.org
Date:  Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:13:21 +0200
From:  Alexandra Lacourba <alex@w3.org>
Organisation:  W3C
To:  chairs@w3.org <chairs@w3.org>
CC:  'tp' <w3t-tpregister@w3.org>



Dear Chairs,

We look forward to seeing you in Japan for TPAC 2025 [1], 10-14 November 
in Kobe, Japan.

NEW: This year, in response to requests to reduce the number of sessions 
scheduled in parallel:

  * We have more breakout slots (9, compared to 6 last year). We achieve
    this by scheduling breakout sessions on multiple days of TPAC.
  * We plan to use fewer rooms in any given slot (no more than 10 rooms
    in parallel, compared to 14 last year).
  * We will continue to look for opportunities to reduce the total
    number of sessions (e.g., by asking proponents to combine related
    sessions).

You can help us by making sure your sessions are intended for community 
discussion of topics. Sessions should not be used for group meetings or 
as extra time for their group meeting agendas.

Once again this year:

  * Participants will use GitHub to propose, discuss, and update session
    information. The meeting planners will automatically integrate this
    GitHub data into the TPAC 2025 site and breakout session calendar [2].
  * All breakout sessions will have both a physical and a virtual
    component: a room in the event venue with Zoom teleconference
    support. Zoom information will be available from the TPAC breakout
    calendar.
  * Breakouts that are public (the default) will be open to anyone to
    join remotely, free of charge, without a TPAC registration.

If you are a first-time breakout organizer and would like some help 
organizing your session, please contact us.

To view proposed sessions:
https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues

Before proposing a session, please see good practices for session chairs 
and how to propose a session:
https://github.com/w3c/tpac-breakouts/wiki/Good-Practices-for-Session-Chairs

To propose a session:
https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues/new?assignees=&labels=session&projects=&template=session.yml 
<https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues/new?assignees=&labels=session&projects=&template=session.yml>

Session proposals received before 22 October will be allocated to the 
breakout slots on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We urge participants 
to propose breakout sessions by 22 October so that the meeting planners 
can work to resolve scheduling conflicts. On 3 November we expect to 
announce the breakout schedule for the first three days of the week.

NEW: Some TPAC attendees have indicated that they would like the option 
of scheduling breakout sessions in response to discussions that take 
place at TPAC. For that reason, once TPAC has started attendees may 
propose additional breakout sessions. We will allocate those sessions to 
the Thursday afternoon breakout slot. We will allocate the sessions to 
that slot as we receive them.

Once we have scheduled breakout sessions, they will appear in the TPAC 
2025 breakout calendar [2].

Please contact François Daoust and Ian Jacobs 
<mailto:ij@w3.org,fd@w3.org?Subject=Re%3A%20Call%20for%20TPAC%202025%20Breakout%20sessions> 
with any questions about the organization of TPAC breakouts.

For other questions about TPAC, please write to <w3t-tpregister@w3.org 
<mailto:w3t-tpregister@w3.org?Subject=Re%3A%20Call%20for%20TPAC%202025%20Breakout%20sessions>>.

With kind regards,
Alexandra Lacourba, on behalf of Ian Jacobs and François Daoust

[1] https://www.w3.org/2025/11/TPAC/
[2] https://www.w3.org/calendar/tpac2025/breakout-sessions/