[sv-ac] Re: Proposal: 2-day "Mantis Marathon" face-to-face

Hello Everyone,

Travel could be an issue for me.  I just need to submit the travel justification.

Tom

Seligman, Erik wrote On 09/07/07 07:16 AM,:
> Austin should work for me.  Dmitry, I assume from your distance, Austin
> is just as good as SC.
> 
> How about the rest of you?  I haven't seen many replies to yesterday's
> email.  If we want this to happen we should get things moving.  The more
> of us that can attend in person, the more effective it will be.
> 
> (BTW-- John-- is someone investigating the reflector problems?)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Havlicek [mailto:john.havlicek@freescale.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:46 AM
> To: Seligman, Erik
> Cc: john.havlicek@freescale.com; sv-ac@eda-stds.org; Bustan, Doron;
> eduard.cerny@synopsys.com; yaniv.fais@freescale.com; Korchemny, Dmitry;
> Manisha_Kulshrestha@mentor.com; johan.martensson@jasper-da.com;
> piper@cadence.com; bassam.tabbara@synopsys.com; thomas.thatcher@sun.com;
> R53776@freescale.com
> Subject: Re: Proposal: 2-day "Mantis Marathon" face-to-face
> 
> Hi Erik:
> 
> After having slept on this, I woke up thinking it is a good idea to try
> to make a face-to-face work.
> 
> However, I will not be able to attend in person unless the meeting is in
> Austin.  So I am interested to hear whether people can attend a meeting
> in Austin near the transition from September to October.
> 
> Wherever the meeting is held, there should be accommodation of remote
> participants, at least through a conference call.  Possibly some
> web-based multimedia sharing could be done.
> 
> There will need to be a quorum of participants in order to vote on
> proposals.  If a quorum of participants cannot be raised, then the
> meeting could still serve to accelerate revision and convergence on
> proposals.
> 
> J.H.
> 
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>>Hi all--
>>
>>Dmitry & I were chatting, and we are both worried about getting all 
>>the current proposals into the standard in our time frame, given the 
>>long SVAC-Champions-SVAC revision loop, the upcoming Jewish holidays 
>>affecting various committee members, and the fact that we barely get 
>>through half our agenda in most meetings.
>>
>>One idea used by some of the other committees has been to hold a 2-day
> 
> 
>>face-to-face session.  We would all be sitting in a single conference 
>>room, looking at the same proposals on the screen, and we could try to
> 
> 
>>complete edits & approve by voice vote as many items as possible.
>>
>>Dmitry is willing to travel all the way from Israel for this, so the 
>>rest of us wimps have no excuse for refusing!
>>
>>Ideally, it would be best if this happens before the 10/4 IEEE
> 
> meeting.
> 
>>But it probably needs to happen after the holidays.   Some possible
>>dates Dmitry & I have discussed are 9/26-9/27, or 10/2-10/3.
>>Location-wise, I was thinking the Bay area (Santa Clara/San Jose) 
>>might be easiest for a bunch of us to get to, though I don't have a 
>>good sense of our geo distribution.
>>
>>John, does this sound doable?  What do the rest of you think?

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