The Protocols and Formats Working Group will meet during the W3C Combined Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meeting during the week of 27 October 2014. The PFWG will coordinate with other Working Groups on Monday and Tuesday, 27 and 28 October and meet on Thursday and Friday, 30 and 31 October. Wednesday, 29 October is reserved for the Plenary meeting itself and the W3C 20th Anniversary Symposium.
Registration, host, hotel, and travel information below are copied from the TPAC overview page. Please refer to that page for updated information on these topics and consider the information there definitive.
Participation in the Working Group meeting is open to participants in good standing of W3C/WAI's Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG). Representatives of other W3C groups are also encouraged to request permission to attend in an observer or liaison capacity.
Remote participation is discouraged, aside from presenters reporting on action item assignments. We will use the usual IRC channel for managing agenda topics and action items only. Those wishing to participate remotely by telephone should make specific arrangements with the chair in advance.
For those who are dialing in, we will use the usual Zakim teleconference bridge, +1.617.761.6200. The conference code is 92473. There are slots for up to 4 people to join at a given time. Please check the agenda and coordinate appropriate times for you to dial in. We may experiment with other channels; please check in with the meeting in IRC.
All attendees must register for the Technical Plenary week before 8 October 2014. There is a US $75 per day registration fee, which rises ro $150 after 8 October 2013. PFWG members should indicate that you are attending as a participant of the Protocols and Formats Working Group. Non-members may indicate that they would like to observe. Observer requests will be followed up by email.
Current registrants are listed in the registration results page.
See the TPAC Venue Information page for location information and links. Please refer to the TPAC schedule for information about our meeting room. Information is subject to change, so please check it just before your trip.
Visit the TPAC Hotels for information about the room block and reservations.
Mineta San Jose International Airport is the closest International airport to the meeting site. The Santa Clara Marriott is located just 4 miles from the San Jose International Airport and 30 miles south of the San Francisco International Airport. The travel time between the airport and the hotel (meeting site) will vary between 15-30 minutes depending on traffic conditions. Taxi are plentiful and fares vary.
The Hotel Fact Sheet provides driving directions from the San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland airports.
All times are in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) UTC-07:00. Use the provided URIs to ascertain agenda items in your local, dialin time.
TELECONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS:
PFWG is not itself meeting on Monday or Tuesday, but there are important liaison opportunities for people to be observers in the meetings of other groups.
All PFWG Participants are encouraged to participate in the Plenary program and W3C@20 symposium.
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