- From: Christopher Welty <welty@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:31:50 -0400
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
I see that in a previous webont phone call, a "straw poll" indicated a "tie" between Manchester and NY. I don't understand why a straw poll is necessary when all the trouble to do a web tally was undertaken. The web vote with the rankings of 1-5 were, as I understood it, set up to let people specify through the rankings both their favorite single location and their preference between having it in the Eastern US vs. Europe. The tally clearly shows that group members expressed an overall preference to have the meeting on the East Coast. Manchester had the most "1s", it also had the most "5s". NY had by far the highest avg score in the tally. This is obviously just a battle between Europeans who want to stay in Europe and Americans who want to stay here. If we're going to throw away the web tally, then let's do this properly - let's first vote on whether to have the Jan. meeting in Europe or in the US, and THEN let's choose a location. I think Ian surprised most of us by suggesting Manchester, as we were all expecting the alternation to continue. If the group decides to have the next meeting in Europe, personally I'd rather not go to England twice (and I know I'm not alone), and I bet other volunteers would come forward to host the event. -Chris Dr. Christopher A. Welty, Knowledge Structures Group IBM Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Dr. Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA Voice: +1 914.784.7055, IBM T/L: 863.7055 Fax: +1 914.784.6078, Email: welty@us.ibm.com
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