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

[Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net>]

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On Fri Jul 18 19:28:26 2008, Keith Moore wrote:
> I'm also tempted to suggest that there be an extra charge for  
> attendance on Mondays (other than for WG chairs and people  
> presenting material), with the proceeds split between the  
> secretariat and the people doing presentations.
Definitely against this - paying per presentation just fills me with  
horror. Most people have to travel over a weekend anyway, so its  
either the weekend before, with all the tutorials, or after, with  
nothing.


> I honestly think that "catch up" sessions could be quite valuable  
> in several ways.  They could help newcomers to a particular WG get  
> up to speed, they could facilitate more cross-area review, they  
> could make the  real discussions more effective by minimizing time  
> spent explaining things to those who weren't caught up.

Now this really makes me think - what if Monday was filled with  
lightning talk style quick-fire presentations on various WGs and  
documents? I suspect more or less one track per Area or perhaps AD  
would work, with presentations limited to 5 or 10 minutes. There's no  
need to limit this to just WGs, either - key WG docs could have their  
own talk, as could individual documents.

The result would be that on Mondays, attendees could very easily do a  
catch-up and cross-area run.

I think we would really benefit from this, as it'd provide an  
excellent place to gain good cross-area awareness - and that ought to  
breed better review and integration.

Dave.
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