From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Mon Jan 9 10:33:17 2017 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id A7857358999; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:33:17 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk (smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk [62.24.135.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA4F3588A6 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:33:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([212.139.77.201]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id QWKFcFenzU65lQWKFc3ZL4; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:33:12 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [212.139.77.201] Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5831) Planning for the 2018 WG5 Meeting To: sc22wg5 References: <20170108023831.07C4F3589A1@www.open-std.org> From: John Reid Message-ID: <268e2926-5f84-1171-0546-ae75445ae45f@stfc.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:33:09 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170108023831.07C4F3589A1@www.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfMLVqIDYHUReLvQtIq6C9quj3UzQzGPCY9SB3JyLPbQCdnaJQY1nH2iA4mWD/fFKnU1Lg1a0wr38oDmDB8d5vYIWRCGxFslk+nv755Nr5uYDrlSF2geC c5Ah+sQxcGLwXl3b+ywKAhSd2cJ6wTV3rFV78/hmlhMBqItXlq7qak8AckKLvQdcAKAo91gPFbcInbcAwMlwbVcjxuLl2o0JA4E= Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Damian Rouson wrote: > All, > > I look forward to hosting the 2018 WG5 meeting in Oakland, California. > Please access the following link to respond to a poll regarding > preferred dates: > > http://doodle.com/poll/nyywwfaxmqphhniz > > The poll options include each full week in June 2018. Feel free to let > me know if you would like to have additional options. > > If we have the meeting at the Impact Hub Oakland > — the worldwide headquarters of Sourcery > Institute — then I can reserve either of our two largest meeting > rooms for plenary sessions. One > holds 26 people. The other holds 36. I’ll book the one that holds 26 > unless any of you suggest otherwise. A limit of 26 sounds fine. > If someone could give me an > estimate of the likely sizes we’ll need for breakout rooms, that would > be helpful. They can be quite small, perhaps 6. What is available? > I am investigating hotel options and am using the government per diem > rate of $161/night as an intended cap, which will be challenging here. > One option that I believe will be under the per diem rate is the Clarion > Hotel > in > downtown Oakland, which Google Maps estimates to be a 15-minute, > 0.8-mile walk from the Impact Hub Oakland > . > If you take a slight detour, it can be a very pleasant walk along > picturesque Lake Merritt. It’s also possible to take the subway one stop > (the map shows the 12th St. and 19th St. BART subway stops on Broadway). > My assistant is investigating other hotel options as well. > > There are dozens of great lunch and dinner spots across the full > spectrum of prices within blocks of the Impact Hub Oakland, including a > microbrewery that shares a wall with the Hub and restaurant just across > the courtyard from the Hub. > > For anyone thinking of spending extra days here before or after the > meeting, I will provide a list of local cultural attractions and > excursions further afield. From downtown Oakland, San Francisco is only > 20 minutes away via subway and the wine country in Sonoma and Napa > valleys is only a 1-hour drive away. For any music lovers, I highly > recommend taking in a show at the SF Jazz Center > , which is a beautiful venue that > is the first free-standing concert hall of its size and stature for jazz > in the U.S. > > All suggestions regarding the above are welcome. What about a reunion of "old geezers"? We last did that in 2003 as a 2-day meeting before the WG5/J3 meeting. Thanks very much for your offer to host this meeting. Cheers, John.