QAWG/IG face-to-face meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 21-23 October 2003

(Latest revision: 20030813)

The QA Working Group (and chairs of the Interesting Group) meet in person every 3 or 4 months in a "face-to-face meeting". This time the meeting is hosted by NIST in Boulder, Colorado, in October 2003.

See the QA Calendar for links to minutes of other QAWG/IG face-to-face meetings.

Venue and logistics

Meeting Dates

October 21-23, 2003

Location

NIST - Boulder
325 Broadway, Boulder CO
Visitor information (including directions)

Network

A wireless network will be available

Accomodation

A block of rooms has been arranged at 2 hotels under the Group ID: "NIST QA Working Group Meeting"

Hotel Boulderado, Victorian historic landmark, heart of downtown;
Rate $119 will be available until 20 Sept.
Boulder Outlook Hotel & Suites, Recently renovated, hot breakfast included, Executive type room.
Rate $79 will be available until 18 Sept.

(Additional hotels/motels)

For security reasons (NIST is not open to the public), the following information is needed for a Visitor's pass:

Name
Business Affiliation
Business Address and Phone

Non-US Citizens MUST also provide:

passport #
date of birth
country of birth and country of residence.

Please provide this information to Lynne Rosenthal before 29 Sept. 2003

Agenda

This is a draft agenda. Refinements and suggestions are welcome.

Tuesday, October 21st. AM: Interest Group topics and outreach
- Minutes: Patrick
- QA rechartering status.
- Membership
  - decline
  - recruitment
- March TP planning: QAWG/IG meeting; EO/outreach; TP presentation.
- Review of inreach/outreach practices
- WWW2004: David's panel proposal [1] and suggested discussion points [2].
- Tools development
  - qa-dev
  - Olivier's TS prototype/experiment
  - NIST-sponsored projects
  - the Boston tools list (TTF deliverables) [6]
- "the bigger scheme of things for QAWG/IG"
Tuesday, October 21st. PM:
- Minutes: Karl
- (morning topics continued)
Wednesday, October 22nd AM through Thursday, October 23rd AM:
- Minutes
  - Wed AM: Dom
  - Wed PM: Sandra
  - Thurs AM: Lynne
- OpsGL CR plan [7];
  - outreach & WG visits? etc.
  - Daniel's "short (5?) selling points" package
- SpecGL CR status and plan
- any plans for new OpsET or SpecET publication soon?
- TestGL Last Call plans
  - New TestGL discussion draft [3]
  - Schedule & Plan
- TestET
- TCDL draft [4] & cover letter [5]
Thursday, October 23rd PM:
- wrapup, future plans, next meetings [TP in Europe?]
  - telecons: topics, frequency, rotating guest-chair(?).
- 13:00 - 15:00: Tour of NIST (cryogenics demonstration and the atomic clock)

References:

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2003Oct/0008.html

[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2003Oct/0014.html

[3] http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2003/10/TestGL-20031020.html

[4] http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2003/10/tcdl-20031013.html

[5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2003Oct/0030.html

[6] http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2003/03/qawgttf-20030612.html

[7] http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2003/09/ops-implementation.html