Re: [xtm-wg] Re: Next XTM WG Meeting(s)

["Jack Park" <jackpark@verticalnet.com>]

Help me out here, Steve.  Does this mean I can tell my employer that there
is an XTM meeting in Montreal?  If so, then there's a good chance I could
go.

OTOH: if there is a meeting, would it be one of the "official" meetings
that, should I miss it, counts against me as a practicing active wg member?
<slight giggle on that one>

Cheers
Jack

From: Steven R. Newcomb <srn@techno.com>

>
> I have taken the liberty of attempting to make an arrangement whereby
> we could have XTM meetings in the evenings during the Extreme
> conference in Montreal.
>
> This was morally against the policy of the conference, which is to
> keep all meetings totally away from it.  I therefore recused myself
> from the decision, even though I am one of the four co-chairs of the
> conference.
>
> The decision was a reluctant "No".  If we made an exception in this
> case, we'd have to make other exceptions.  It would endanger one of
> the primary purposes of the conference, which is to allow technical
> people, worldwide, to enjoy some unplanned camaraderie with one
> another.  In at least some cases, this may mean going out and getting
> even drunker with each other after each of the evening receptions, in
> the long, balmy summer evenings in colorful, high-latitude Montreal.
> The latter kind of activity is more in keeping with the busman's
> holiday culture of this particular conference than going straight into
> a standards meeting at 8:00 pm would be, especially after a long day
> of geek-to-geek mutual technical stimulation.
>
> Personally, I'd rather not have an XTM meeting in Montreal.  However,
> time is short, windows may be closing, and all other kinds of urgency
> are evergreen.  If we must have a meeting in Montreal, it's better to
> have it after the conference, on the following Saturday and Sunday,
> August 18-19.  The only other alternative is to have it before the
> tutorials, which would make the unwarranted presumption that all the
> XTMers would also like to take part in the pre-conference tutorial
> program.
>
> -Steve
>
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