Re: Agenda item for July ConfCall: September meeting

[atman <atman@vedavid.org>]

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.

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John Robert Gardner
XML Design Coordinator
Emory University
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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
>