Re: Accurate location information is a "must have" requirement

[Rafael Weinstein <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Responding to the discussion of whether location is a property of an event...

We may lack the language to describe what it is where arguing over because "location" is no 
longer sufficient to describe the space of an event when the event itself may take place 
electronically or may not be an "meeting" our the traditional sense of the word.

It seems clear to me that in order for an event description to be useful in an concrete sense it 
must contain at least three things:

a) "What the event is" (Title, id#, or some other way of differentiating it from others)
a) "When the event takes place"
b) "How to attend the event" 

...all in some meaningful way to _me_ as a participant or observer.

b) "How to attend the event" may be

-(Go to) Meeting Room A, ConHugeCo Inc. Mtn View Campus.
-(Connect to) IRC #what's-the-deal-with-Bob-Dole's-Hair
-(Turn on office) Video Phone, Channel 4539184947759393XAA
-(Bring) Chips & Salsa to David Hasselhof's summer home, knock on the door and tell 'em "Mitch 
sent me"

I realize that, in my flippancy (is that a word?), I've overlooked complete generality, but I'll 
claim that "events that take place at some exact time somewhere in the known universe" will at 
least be in the minority of those that people will tend to schedule. And while "location" may not 
be a good word, using the sense of "How to attend the event", I think it certainly is an 
essential property.

Rafael