Re: W3C web fonts working group meeting in Sao Paulo (potential location)

Excellent, thank you Vlad!  On our end we would be all set to host the
working group meeting.  Perhaps we could all discuss and decided during the
next meeting?

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com> wrote:

>  Thank you David and Google for the offer!
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> Having such a luxury accommodations for the meeting is great and
> considering the Wi-Fi connectivity, lunch and espressos/snacks makes it an
> unbeatable deal!
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> I checked the hotel recommendations from ATypI – most of the hotels (other
> than those located within the walking distance of the conference venue) are
> located in between these two destinations. The distance from Ave. Paulista
> area (where many hotels are) to Google San-Paolo office is only about 3.5
> miles (5.5 km) and it is predicted about 20 min taxi ride in traffic – not
> bad at all!
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> Thanks again for a great offer!
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> Vlad
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> *From:* David Kuettel [mailto:kuettel@google.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:14 PM
> *To:* public-webfonts-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* W3C web fonts working group meeting in Sao Paulo (potential
> location)
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> Hello working group,
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> One option for the working group meeting in Sao Paulo (on Tuesday October
> 13th, just before ATypI) would the Google Sao Paulo office.
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> The Google office is about ~20 minutes (without traffic) by car from the
> ATypI venue.  We tentatively reserved a large conference room for the day
> and confirmed that lunch would be an option, as well as the usual espressos
> + snacks. :)
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> Here for reference is the address along with a map from the ATypI venue:
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> *Google Sao Paulo*
> Google Brasil Internet Ltda.
> Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 3477 - 18º andar
> São Paulo, 04538-133 Brazil
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> https://goo.gl/maps/lxqh4
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> Google would be delighted to host the working group in Brazil!  While
> there would be many advantages of having the meeting in the office (WiFi,
> VC/Hangouts, lunch, coffee, drinks, snacks, etc), there would be one
> potential disadvantage and that could likely be traffic to and from (which
> is said to be bad in the city).  One option to mitigate this, could be to
> start a bit later, e.g. 9AM or even 10AM instead of earlier.
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> If there is any more information that I could gather that would be helpful
> in making our decision, please just let me know.
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> Looking forward to our next in-person meeting in Sao Paulo!
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> Thank you,
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> David
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