Happy Clog and the WaSP Café
Happy Clog is having another gathering, but this time it's slightly different. This time, we're doing a WaSP Café, and we're having it on May 27th, at 14:00 in the King Arthur Café in Utrecht, The Netherlands. More details below (or for you kind and gentle feed readers, details in the full post).
What's this "WaSP Café" thing?
For those unfamiliar with WaSP (or those thinking "what do White-Anglo Saxton Protestants have to do with this?"), the Web Standards Project, WaSP for short, is a grassroots coalition fighting for web standards. Now, I am sure that most of my readers will be well aware of the WaSP already, but what exactly is it that the WaSP does? What are their goals, what are their activities towards those goals, and how can the WaSP influence things around you?
That's what the WaSP Café is all about: it's about taking the WaSP into the public, into the mainstream. It's about getting more closely involved with everyone who shares our cause, while at the same time giving the WaSP a familiar face (a WaSP Café will always have at least one WaSP Member present) that makes it easier to connect with.
During the (first ever public) WaSP Annual Meeting this March, held at SXSW Interactive, the new site was launched with, again for the first time in WaSP history, the ability for you to comment on WaSP Buzz posts.
As you can see things are changing around WaSP, and it's changing for the better. More direct communication with our peers will give us more and better feedback, and allows us to get involved in many more projects and undertakings to help promote web standards. It will also help get the WaSP more known to organizations, which may ultimately lead to new projects that will help the promotion and proper teaching of web standards.
The WaSP Café is one more new thing that the WaSP is starting up. It was an idea of Kazuhito Kidachi, and is primarily a social gathering to talk about web standards.
But.. Happy Clog has been doing that for well over two years, albeit under different monikers in the early days. So what makes this WaSP Café any different? Well, the structure and content - but not as much as you might think.
The structure of a WaSP Café consists of a WaSP Member doing a brief presentation on what the WaSP is doing and where it is going, followed by time for questions. Then, unless there are any current issues related to WaSP to discuss, it is just a social gathering like our many previouis ones, with casual but hopefully constructive and enlightening chat on web standards and accessibility.
In light of the recent announcement of the WaSP International Liaison Group, this upcoming WaSP Café gathering is clearly a great opportunity for us, Dutch web standards enthusiasts, to discuss the Dutch Liaison for the WaSP. So, if you're interested in being the WaSP Dutch Liaison or just want to know what's going on with WaSP and the promotion of web standards, make sure you are at the WaSP Café on May 27th, at 14:00 in the King Arthur Café in Utrecht.
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See you there!
I thought our meetings were about an excuse to drink lots of beer midday? Utrecht sounds reasonable though, I might make it.
Who's the WaSP member attending in Utrecht?
Me :)
well...that's right in the middle of my examns :( so I won't be able to join you all in the beerdri....discussion of webstandards.
I am marked watching for now but I cannot attend unfortunately (batizado that weekend).
That's the same one as last time, right?
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
I'll be there.
Ehhh, it's the same location as whichever other meeting in Utrecht we held. I'm not sure if that's the last one, but it's the same as our last one in Utrecht, at least. :-)
Ye that's what I meant :)
Mientjes, my arch-enemy in spe! (Yes, that's Dinglish, deal with it!)
Was starting to wonder if I should pick up the ball and host a meeting myself. Still possible of course, but lets see how this next meeting shapes up. We need more activity. New members? Designers? Managers? Copywriters? We don't really have anybody who fits those descriptions. I mean we all do a little of everything but we need more specialists. Something to discuss?
PS. Sometimes there seems to be some confusion on what a designer does. Well, its not writing HTML that's for sure.
Haha! Let's see what happens, whether we collide or not. Just know I'm 18 now, not that 16-year-old... Myeah ;)
(Dinglish FTW! (Awful expression, that.))
Just know I'm 6 foot 5 inches....Myeah! ;)
(Gotta love the Dinglish!)
(The mix itself, not the word..gah!)
Wait, wha? You're taller than me? I don't recall you being taller, let alone by as much as _three_ inches...
I'm definately taller...sorry dude :)
(If you're really 188cm that is)
Was mentioning the age bit as just that: age. To make it extra clear that you have no good reasoning to discard whatever I say as 16-year-old-speak ;)
Shuddap youngster :P
Egor, so you're not a designer? :-) I've seen you coding HTML! Oh wait, did you mean designers code XHTML?!
Can someone post (on a blog) a reminder by the way when it is the 26th of May or even earlier? E-mailing me might work too I suppose.
"a WaSP Café will always have at least one WaSP Member present" -- Okay, who of you's coming to Prague? ;)
See you guys at Utrecht CS
Somehow I managed to miss the announcement alltogether. Sorry I missed this.
Better next time.