Re: Planning a face to face meeting

Hi  - a couple of comments.
First - I am happy to host a meeting at RPI around the IPAW time or at 
another mutually agreeable time.
I also include some other dates and places below that I think we need to 
consider for timing.
One I believe is particularly important since one can not go to the AAAI 
Spring Symposium Series and the W3C Advisory Committee meeting (and I am 
running a SSS meeting on Linked Data meets AI that I believe (and hope) 
at least some of this group are planning to attend).

Of the events below, I can not attend the w3c meeting, will attend AAAI 
SSS, will attend WWW (and the co-located Web Science conference), will 
not attend ESWC, will attend IPAW and SemTech.

Deborah

interleaved dates below

Yolanda Gil wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> We will discuss plans for a face to face meeting at our next week's 
> telecon.  Perhaps the best way to handle this is to solicit 
> possibilities from the group in the next few days, discuss briefly at 
> the telecon, and then set up a vote to decide.
>
> We should take into account the cost/time of travel for all 
> participants, which makes places like California less desirable.  If 
> this is not the case, I am happy to host the meeting at ISI anytime.  
> But realistically we should think of events that people in the group 
> are likely to attend or could potentially attend by combining the trip 
> with other activities or simply because the location is convenient.
>
> We should have a teleconference like set up so people that cannot 
> attend will be able to join in.
>
> Some possible opportunities that have been brought up are, in 
> chronological order:
>
> - March 21-23: W3C Advisory Committee meeting at MIT, Boston, MA
- March 22-24: AAAI Spring Symposium Series at Stanford University, 
Stanford, CA  (http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss10.php and 
http://www.foaf-project.org/events/linkedai
>
> - April 26-30: WWW conference in Raleigh, NC
>
> - May 30-Jun 3: ESWC conference in Heraklion, Greece
>
> - June 15-16: IPAW in Troy, NY
- June 21-25 SemTech in San Francisco, CA
>
> Those are the dates of the meetings, so our face to face would be 
> scheduled around those dates and of course we would need to figure out 
> the logistics with the organizers.
>
> From the point of view of the timeline of the group, I think earlier 
> dates would be better.  The timing and location of the W3C AC meeting 
> may be best, and they would have no problem facilitating the logistics 
> (room, cost, telecon line, etc).  Also lots of W3C groups have F2F at 
> these, so it is also useful for synergistic interactions with other 
> W3C groups.  Good interactions may also be possible at the WWW 
> conference, though if you were not planning to be at WWW then Raleigh 
> is a bit more out of the way than Boston in terms of travel.  We would 
> have to discuss with the WWW organizers about logistics, see if they 
> would give us a room and a phone line, work out the cost, etc.  I 
> think that June is probably a bit late to have the face to face as our 
> activities wrap up in September and there is summer in between, but we 
> should consider it as a possibility.
>
> Does anyone have other suggestions?
>
> Yolanda
>
>
>

Received on Monday, 7 December 2009 13:59:28 UTC