Re: Quick straw poll on future WG meeting modes (F2F / hybrid)

On 2022-02-08 22:48, Vladimir Levantovsky wrote:
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> Folks,
>
> As a follow up to today’s Zoom call discussion:
>
> W3C is trying to assess the overall level of interest in conducting 
> the next TPAC (planned for Sep. 12-16, 2022) as an F2F / hybrid 
> meeting with the physical meetings venue being Vancouver, Canada. 
> Since this WG had typically held its F2F meetings co-located with 
> other industry events / conferences, I would like to make an 
> assessment on our collective desire to resume F2F gatherings in more 
> general sense – including, but not limiting these considerations to 
> TPAC only.
>
> In order to make this assessment, I’d like to ask you to respond to 
> this email considering the following aspects:
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> 1)Your personal readiness to join physical meetings (your willingness 
> to travel, concerns, risk assessment, etc.);
>
If needed. I somewhat prefer virtual meetings in some respects (amount 
of total out-of-work time that translates to work, for example). My 
absolute least preference is the hybrid meeting where some f2f people 
aatempt to include a considerable number of remote participants, 
typically with poor results.
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> 2)Your organization policies (travel policy restrictions, vaccine / 
> testing requirements, etc.)
>
Currently W3C policy for staff is that all business travel is suspended 
and that exceptions have to be authorized on a case by case basis. For 
example, accepting a golden statue apparently is granted an exception.
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> 3)Other impediments to attending physical meetings (travel approvals, 
> budget limitations, etc.)
>
W3C staff current travel budget is zero with individual exceptions 
authorized on a case by case basis.
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> Thanks,
>
> Vlad
>
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Chris Lilley
@svgeesus
Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design
W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media