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Subject: Re: Agenda item for July ConfCall: September meeting
I can't remember now what th eformat is -- and I was the one who supposedly cooked it up, but if appropriate, then, I second this for inclusion as an action/agenda item for the phone conf in which, as I recall, such mostions are formally addressed. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Robert Gardner XML Design Coordinator Emory University -------------------------- Insight into the nature of the universe is more common than the common universe of nature is in sight. --So'ham Asmi On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 David_Marston@lotus.com wrote: > I just got off the phone with one of the XML World staff, > discussing options for our committee to meet at the Boston > XML World conference in September. If we can resolve what > we want to do in this week's teleconference, that would be > ideal for getting a more formal request back to them and > having it realized. > > The planned BOF time slots are for the lunches: Noon to > 1:30 is about the max. Given the exigencies of actually > feeding ourselves and getting to the following session, > we would probably be lucky to net an hour for real > discussion. The other option is to use an evening time > slot, which the organizers will schedule eventually, > though they are trying to hold back to see the whole > volume of requests for evening events. I get the sense > that our meeting (as a publicized program item if > spectators are allowed) is in line with their ideal, > because they seem to prefer events that appeal only to > those who are deeply into some part of XML, while the > general audience will avoid overload by taking nights > off. We could have both a meeting among ourselves and > a spectated meeting, in which case I advocate having the > more private meeting first, so that we can review how we > might involve the audience in the open meeting. On the > other hand, we may prefer to have a smaller meeting when > we want to achieve closure. Don't forget that we will > need to tell the conference organizers how much time we > want for that evening session. > > So here it is in the form of a motion: I move that we > ask the XML World organizers for an evening time slot > for a publicly-spectated meeting which will be the > formal meeting called for in our meeting schedule, > authorize the conference organizers to publish that > meeting notice in their conference program (and > similar media, like their Web site), that we make an > advance determination of whether we might call for > audience input on any discussion items that will (or > may) come up at that meeting, and also plan to have a > meeting of just the committee ahead of that public > session (probably in a BOF timeslot but not called as > a BOF) to work out how we will maximize the utility > of the formal meeting. > .................David Marston >
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