TPAC program committee

Review proposed plenary agenda from Ian and Tantek

<Alan> "lianqi@fl.buaa.edu.cn" <lianqi@fl.buaa.edu.cn>

<marie> ian: issue are about variable time slots

<marie> 4h30' for breakout time

<marie> 1h for plenary session

<marie> flexibility in reporting

<marie> 7 rooms avail. and 4 slots = 28 sessions

<marie> PC should be empowered to pre-select topics and to get a quarter of avail. rooms

<marie> room logistics - 10mns travel time: http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2012-Planning#Room_logistics

< less than 10mns travel

IJ: Any responses to this?

:)

<marie> mcf: about LTs?

<marie> ij: about new and upcoming stuff

marie: Will those LT slots be used to promote sessions?

francois: Thought it might be confusing to have LTs about upcoming and new work
... since the sessions may not be on those topics, but it could be useful to set the context for existing discussions
... might give a good overview of what people are talking about

IJ: Jeff will cover ground, too

<Alan> +1 to agenda proposal

<Zakim> Alan, you wanted to ask how many total session we have and are we pre-doing some?

http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2012-Planning#Before_the_Plenary

IJ: Which BGs are meeting?

Alan: broadcasters and signage bgs have requested space and are meeting during tpac

<marie> (BGs to do a LT?)

IJ: Other thoughts on outreach? Getting sessions?

MCF: Make available grid near registration so people see sessions and can start putting their own on Monday and Tuesday

[poll]

Any objections to uniform time slots of 1 hour?

<marie> please uniform

Any support for uniform sessions (of 1 hour)?

(Marie: Yes)

<Alan> +1 to uniforms - with lots of ribbons!

Proposals:

Number of pre-selected breakout sessions (proposed 7 of 28).

<Alan> +1

MCF: +1

<marie> +1

<tidoust> +1

<jeff> +1

Confirm reporting suggestions (flexibility, 30-minute sharing slot)

<Alan> which is optional - correct?

<Alan> +1

<marie> and timed

ac agenda -> https://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/ac-agenda

good practices

http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2012-Planning#Good_practice_for_session_chairs

yes

http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2011

http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2011#Session_Grid

<chaals> [for the record I am happy with variable timing of sessions]

no resolution yet on that...just asking for support or objections

Can live with uniform sessions?

Can live with variable sessions?

Prefer variable?

<chaals> [can live with either]

[tx]

Use of public mailing list for prog committee comms

Are you ok using public-techplenary for communications by default in this prog committee?

<tidoust> yes

yes

<Alan> prefer member

mcf: would rather use member-techplenary when we discuss things like topic selection

Note: these particular minutes will be public unless there are objections.

<chaals> [Don't mind if the minutes are public or member - usual trade-off of transparency vs getting enough information on record to be useful applies]

<Alan> OK with these as public

<jeff> Ian?

proposed: default to public mailing list. use member list for sensitive discussions. Same with minutes

<jeff> ok with me

<marie> +1

RESOLVED

<Alan> +1

Next meeting

proposed: 11am ET, Friday 14 Sep

<Alan> OK by me

I see jeff has a tentative call then

<chaals> [Good practice - end sessions on time. Make sure there is time for summing up - so make people keep discussion short, and use something better than a long-winded explanation of how well the previous speaker expressed the point to say "+1"]

chaals, can you edit directly?

<chaals> [sure, if people are happy with those - or with the idea that we should run the wiki in "open slather" mode]

<chaals> [I think 5 minutes for 100+ people to move from somewhere to somewhere 4 minutes away is underestimating the time required by about 5 minutes]

<tidoust> OK by me as well

charles, ok with 14 sep at 11am ET?

<chaals> [yep, WfM (I'll try to get the time shift right, too)]

<Alan> bye

<jeff> My 11AM on the 14th looks like a hard conflict

ok

we'll do the exercise of syncing up separately

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