On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 04:07:14PM -0500, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:47 PM Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020, Nico Williams wrote: > > > We might want to consider spreadign remote-only meetings over two weeks > > > instead of one. > > > > Please don't :) > > I can mark a week as "IETF week" and my collegues know I'm mostly > > gone/busy, but extending that to two weeks would not work. It would > > result in me not being able to drop most non-IETF work, and it would > > be harder for me to be seen as "busy at IETF". So regular work would > > interfere and expect precedence over my IETF meetings. > > I am sympathetic to this, especially if we hope to involve people who can't > participate in an IETF meeting for a week or two at a time (some smart > people don't have time to do more than show up at three sessions that are > interesting and/or relevant, much less a whole week, much less two whole > weeks). > > But I wonder if leaving Gather.Town up for (at a minimum) the week before > and week after an IETF meeting week would allow people to do a better job > of contacting people you want to talk to, especially if there is a way to > say "I'm planning to talk to (perhaps include names, and other) people who > are interested in aspects of immersive media on Tuesday, at this time, > please feel free to stop by". Or maybe even a year-round NOTE WELL room(s) on some such platform that also supports ad-hoc (not-necessarily-NOTE-WELL) rooms/chats. With encouragement to visit the week before, of, and after a scheduled meeting. > In Real Life, we do wander around in real hallways, but we also say "I'll > meet you by the cookes during the break", and then people stop by to join > in. > > That might give people a better venue for actual "side meetings" than the > pseudo-sessions with slides, minutes, and mike lines that people are using > because that's the best venue they have available. +1.
