The Mederos » whatwg http://medero.net by Julie Medero and Shawn Medero. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:20:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Hanging Out with The WhatWG Cabal http://medero.net/2008/10/hanging-out-with-the-whatwg-cabal/ http://medero.net/2008/10/hanging-out-with-the-whatwg-cabal/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:55 +0000 Shawn Medero http://medero.net/?p=57 I’m at the W3C TPAC, in Mandelieu, France, doing my small part to keep the web moving forward. It is always said that the best part of any conference is the non-standard face-to-face meetings: hallway chats, chance encounters, lunches, and dinners. I’ve been doing my best to take advantage of these moments, like hanging out with a mixture of Opera employees and some of the more active WhatWG members:


In the photo left to right: Me, Arve Bersvendsen, Lachlan Hunt*, Ian Hickson*, Anne van Kesteren*, and Geoffrey Sneddon*. Photo taken by Kai Hendry.
* Evil Cabal Member

Too much of our work happens over the internet (IRC, email, blogs, wikis, etc), for obvious reasons, and meeting in-person at least once a year gives you a chance to attach something more tangible to the experience. We each have our own “quirks mode” that is difficult to understand in a medium like email unless you’ve caught of the mannerisms, facial expressions, vocalizations, etc before hand.

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