[sc34wg3] Meeting locations for next year?

[Patrick Durusau]

Steve,

Steve Pepper wrote:
> I spoke to Standard Norway today and they will shortly send an invitation to
> SC34 to hold its 2008 Spring Plenary in Oslo on April 5-8.
>
>   
Excellent!
> We would like the OASIS ODF Technical Committee to collocate with this
> meeting in order to bring work on the next version of ISO 26300 more under
> the wing of SC34. I would appreciate advice on how to proceed on this.
>
>   
I have raised that possibility with the chairs but there hasn't been a 
lot of discussion as of yet. From what little there has been, the 
expense of getting a quorum of the TC present may be an issue.
> We should also consider where the Fall Plenary of SC34 is likely to be held.
> One possibility would be Korea, in conjunction with AToMS 2008. Sam has
> suggested locating AToMS on Jeju Island (Korea's holiday island equivalent
> of the Canaries and the Bahamas), but I am not sure what dates he was
> thinking in terms of.
>
> WG3 should also continue to support TMRA by holding a meeting in Leipzig.
>
>   
True, but we need to also be mindful that we need enough space between 
meetings in order to allow editors enough time to prepare new drafts 
(and to absorb the expense of attending before setting out again).

One problem that is difficult to address is that several parts of our 
work are so closely interrelated that work on one is not possible 
without the others.

While our best work is done with everyone in attendance, with our 
expanded range of meeting locations (which I personally think is a very 
good thing), we need to recognize that not everyone will be able to 
attend every meeting.

If we assume the following dates:

1. April - Oslo - Spring SC 34 plenary
2. August - Montreal
3. November - Leipzig

I am not sure where the Fall SC 34 plenary falls in that schedule and 
allows time for new drafts.

Being mindful that with the increased interest in WG 1 matters that SC 
34 plenaries are likely to be larger than they have been in the past.

Suggestions?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

> Steve
>  
> --
> Conference Chair, Topic Maps 2008
> Oslo, April 2-4 2008
> www.topicmaps.com
>  
>  
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: sc34wg3-bounces at isotopicmaps.org [mailto:sc34wg3-
> | bounces at isotopicmaps.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> | Sent: 09 November 2007 01:36
> | To: Discussion of ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps
> | Subject: [sc34wg3] Meeting locations for next year?
> | 
> | Greetings!
> | 
> | Just a heads up that everyone needs to be thinking about meeting
> | locations for WG 3 for 2008.
> | 
> | I am presuming that we will have a Spring meeting in Oslo, in
> | conjunction with Topic Maps 2008, 2-4 April 2008
> | (http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2008/).
> | 
> | There is a nice conference in August in Montreal, Balisage: The Markup
> | Conference, 12-15 August 2008 (http://www.balisage.net/).
> | 
> | Thoughts/Suggestions?
> | 
> | Not only do we need to think about locations but also about what we can
> | have productively done by the dates of any proposed meeting.
> | 
> | Hope everyone is having a great day!
> | 
> | Patrick
> | 
> | --
> | Patrick Durusau
> | patrick at durusau.net
> | Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
> | Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
> | Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
> | Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300)
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Patrick Durusau
patrick at durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300)