Re: IETFs... the final Friday?

[Pete Resnick <presnick at qualcomm.com>]

On 1/20/06 at 1:20 PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Tim Chown wrote:
>
> > If you look back over past agendas, it's typically a day with 
> > around 3-5 meetings in one session to 11.30am, of which half or 
> > more are BoFs.
>
> Friday morning is part of the IETF. It's true that generally we 
> schedule about half as many parallel sessions as during the rest of 
> the week, but that means you only need to be in 4 places at once 
> instead of 8 the rest of the time.
>
> The survey results indicate that we shouldn't extend to a full day 
> on Friday, but scrapping those ~4 sessions would have serious impact 
> on scehduling constraints earlier in the week.

However, one of Tim's points is well-taken: We MUST stop scheduling 
BOFs when the likelihood of people attending drops. And saying 
"Friday is a real day" does no good if you put mostly BOFs on Friday. 
If you want people to stick around on Friday, put only the most 
important meetings then. (And no, I don't mind if my meetings are 
then. I'll be there anyway.) To the extent possible, BOFs should be 
early in the week so that they can be chewed on during the week.

pr
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Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
QUALCOMM Incorporated

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