Re: TPAC meeting openess

There is a (somewhat historical) reason, but I'm happy to let
the WG and f2f chair (Norm) revisit this.

For the first couple TPACs in the (now somewhat distant) past,
I had checked "with permission by the chair", and *no one* ever
asked permission, but they just showed up.  Folks with nothing
to do for an hour or so would just pop in to see "what's going on
in the XML WG".  And then they would come and go throughout the
meeting which was distracting.  (And down right rude.)

So I just started saying no observers.  Of course if anyone
actually came up to me and said they'd be interested in attending,
I'd say yes.  It's just that saying no observers was the only way
to avoid the problems caused by all the rude people who didn't
seem to think that "permission of the chair" applied to them.

paul


On 2012-07-16 10:20, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> On 16.7.2012 15:48, Paul Grosso wrote:
>
>> Fall TPAC
>> ---------
>> There will be a TPAC meeting in Lyon, France in October/November:
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Mar/0006
>>
>> We have signed up to have a WG f2f there.
> Hi,
>
> according to schedule at http://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/ our F2F meeting
> is marked as a member confidential with no observers allowed. Is this
> intentional?
>
> This status has been already source of sarcastic comments, e.g.:
> https://twitter.com/hsivonen/status/224882555533524994
>
> Unless there is some reason which I don't see I would be for open
> meeting -- anyway I don't expect many observes interested in exciting
> new features of XInclude 1.1 etc. coming.
>
>     Jirka
>

Received on Monday, 16 July 2012 15:31:35 UTC