Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

[Cyrus Daboo <cyrus at daboo.name>]

Hi Eliot,

--On July 18, 2008 11:41:15 AM +0200 Eliot Lear <lear at cisco.com> wrote:

> I oppose this experiment.  I already donate to my employer a significant
> amount of travel time on weekends without wanting to add to it.  Flight
> schedules are tightening, thanks to the cost of fuel, which means that
> having sessions on Friday at all poses a problem now, if I want to get
> back by Saturday.  Having afternoon sessions would put a nail in that
> coffin.

+1

> I propose two alternative experiments:
>
> 1.  Required agendas and Approval
>
> No session can be approved without a posted agenda.  Many agendas are
> late, which makes it difficult for people to know where they have to be
> and when.  This is particularly true of working groups that meet more
> than once.  The dhc chairs in particular have done a really good job of
> providing the working group with an opportunity to comment on the agenda
> prior to upload.  Approval of agenda by either WG or AD (I could make
> arguments for both) would also limit stupid stuff.  Just because I've
> written a draft doesn't make it intersting to anyone else.
>
> 2.  More meeting rooms per venue.
>
> While this one adds expense in  one way it can reduce in hotel and food
> costs to counterbalance.  The real downside is that people will have to
> be pickier as to which meetings they attend.

I have a third option, which will probably be controversial:

3. Do away with the social on Tuesday night and instead have more sessions 
at that time rather than later on Friday.

--
Cyrus Daboo

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