On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:30:56PM +0100, Adrian Farrel wrote: > Hi, > > Am I the only one to miss random corridor conversations that happen at > face-to-face IETF meetings? Surely not! > Of course, planned coffee-time meet-ups can still be scheduled using a > variety of meeting tools, but the casual bumping in to people and talking > about things, and (better still) hooking into other people's conversations > to learn and share, is a real loss. > > So I have been hanging around in Gather.Town > (https://ietf.gather.town/z6N2SDxHebMdDAfo/IETF-108) and found this has > worked quite nicely for exactly that reason. Quick hellos, short chats, or > longer rambling debates have all been working nicely. Indeed, we had a nice group conversation yesterday. > But where is everybody? The number of people in the application seems to > range between 20 and 50. > > Is the problem that Gather.Town makes you run all sorts of scripts that > might be a bit icky? Or are we all really just antisocial? My personal guess is that more outreach would (have) help(ed). I've been trying to mention it in the closing remarks for my WGs now that I've had some good experiences with it. -Ben
