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Subject: [ubl] Preferences for August UBL meeting
UBL members,
Several people are now making travel arrangements for the summer
and need to know our UBL meeting schedule.
Discussions in the UBL Liaison Subcommittee (responsible for
scheduling) and then in the closing plenary at last week's UBL
meeting in Denver have established the following options for a
UBL meeting in August:
1. 28 July through 1 August 2003 in Montreal (the week prior to
the Extreme Markup conference at the same hotel). I have
confirmed that the conference organizers are willing to
provide the rooms, but we haven't yet established who will
pay for the phones and the projectors, so it's possible that
we will have to come up with the money for this if we can't
get someone else to cover it. However this works, it
shouldn't cost us more than the DISA meeting fee we paid
last week.
2. The same week, 28 July through 1 August 2003, at one of these
locations:
2a. Menlo Park, California (Sun corporate facilities)
2b. Washington, D.C. (LMI corporate facilities)
2c. Boston area (Burlington at Sun facilities or Cambridge
at MIT facilities)
3. The week following the Extreme Markup conference, 11 through
15 August 2003, at one of these locations:
3a. Menlo Park, California (Sun corporate facilities)
3b. Washington, D.C. (LMI corporate facilities)
3c. Boston area (Burlington at Sun facilities or Cambridge
at MIT facilities)
Note the following:
- Option 1 is the clear choice of everyone who wants to attend
the Extreme Markup conference (a small but always interesting
conference for hard-core XML geeks) and everyone who has
experienced Montreal in August (delightful climate, wonderful
street life, great food, some fine jazz clubs, and reasonable
prices in a fun-loving French-speaking city where everyone also
speaks English). We held an important UBL organizational
meeting in Montreal at this same time two years ago before
starting the OASIS TC, so some of you will remember this.
- Options 2a-2c and 3a-3c provide optimal meeting facilities
(phones, projectors, white boards, electrical outlets, extra
breakout rooms).
- Options 3a-3c directly conflict with an EIDX/CompTIA meeting
12-15 August in San Diego. This is of some significance
because EIDX (the electronics industry IT organization) is a
focal point for both RosettaNet and OAGIS implementation. But
if enough people liked this location, I could investigate the
possibility of co-locating the UBL meeting with CompTIA. It's
probably not very likely, but I could check.
So basically, this boils down to choosing Option 1 for the fun of
it or choosing something else for more practical reasons. I
personally am for Option 1, but there are a lot of factors for
others to consider in making this choice.
This is too complex an issue for an up-or-down vote. What I need
from each member planning to attend the August meeting is the
following:
- The options (1, 2a-2c, 3a-3c) that you would prefer.
- The options you can live with.
- The options you can't live with.
I would strongly prefer just the numbers in each category without
a lot of extraneous commentary; I have to tabulate these things.
Please send your answers directly to me, not the list, by COB
Monday 17 February.
Jon
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