Re: Bottom feeders

[Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com>]

Michael,

As I said, the Secretariat has the facts, but I think you will find that the complete
data support the statememt that we have a high proportion of newbies. Which is
not a bad thing in itself, but is a bad thing if they don't become contributors.
Jeffrey Altmann expressed it very well.

  Brian

"Michael W. Condry" wrote:
> 
> A couple of years ago I did a study on IETF attendance - the data was
> gathered from the IETF web site looking at email addresses for folks attending.
> Of the 15 or so ompanies that were examined almost all attendees were
> almost always "repeaters". I cannot be more specific because the report
> still has a proprietary label on it. The only year where the "one timers"
> spiked was for the San Jose meeting.
> 
> At 12:26 PM 12/20/2000 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> > > We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come
> > > back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home
> > > unhappy.
> >
> >interesting idea.
> >
> >so assuming that a lot of folks come to the IETF expecting something
> >different than it is, and going home disappointed, what can we do to
> >make future prospective attendees more aware of what they're getting into?
> >
> >Keith
> 
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