Re: Charter: Participating Member conditions

["David Dodds" <ddodds@opentext.com>]

Hi everyone

without airing any corporate dirty linen much to eveybody's distaste, let me
say, the company I work for may not be  sufficiently enlightened to fly me
around North America, let alone Europe for me to attend meetings.

a stricture on personally attending f2f meetings, regardless where they are
held and how often, simply starts a clock on my ability to be IN the
committee. I cannot personally afford to pay for these plane flights just so
I can stay in the group.

whether I ultimately get to remain in the group or not I simply AM going to
do topic maps development.  Im not abt to let mngmnt kaddidle my future.

David Dodds



----- Original Message -----
From: <SGMLdk@aol.com>
To: <dkoger@speakeasy.org>; <hhr@step.de>; <xtm-wg@egroups.com>
Cc: <topicmapmail@infoloom.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Charter: Participating Member conditions


> I agree with Daniel about the restrictions on the F2F meetings.  Many of
us
> have $$$ restrictions to traveling to meetings inside the US.  It is far
more
> expensive for me to go to California than to Europe for example (I am in
> Chicago).
>
> I think we can set up teleconference calls to replace personal attendance.
> In fact the ICE-AG has done so on occasion when members could not
personally
> attend the F2F meetings.
>
> Dianne Kennedy
>