Hi, I think asking attendees during registration which sessions they intend to attend and building a conflict matrix would be the simplest approach. Of course, attendee conflicts matter less than ADs, chairs, and presenter conflicts. David Harrington dbharrington@xxxxxxxxxxx ietfdbh@xxxxxxxxxxx dharrington@xxxxxxxxxx > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:22 AM > To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand > Cc: IETF Discussion > Subject: Online blue sheets, was: Re: Scheduling unpleasantness > > On 25 mrt 2008, at 4:58, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > > > The WG scheduling tool has 3 lists of "groups to avoid conflicts > > with", 1st, 2nd and 3rd priority. > > > I don't know if these are visible to anyone but the requesting WG > > Chair, but they're listed on the confirmation notice from > the tool; > > I've made it a practice to copy them to the WG I schedule, and > > modify the list according to comments. > > > So I'd ask: > > > Were the meetings you had problems with listed in each others' > > conflicts list? > > - If not, it's a problem at the "data input" level. > > - If yes, it's a problem at the "conflicts resolutions" level. > > I don't know, I haven't seen these lists. > > Apparently the scheduling situation wasn't (much) worse for most > others. In my case, I had huge overlap on monday and tuesday > and then > pretty much nothing of interest happened on wednesday and thursday. > > Although it's useful to have wg chair input on scheduling issues, I > don't think that's sufficient. What we need is to see which wgs have > overlapping constituencies. We actually do have this data > already, in > the form of the blue sheets. But obviously it's not usable in its > current, analog form. > > So I'm offering to build an online version of the blue sheets so in > the future, it will be easy to determine which wgs attract the same > people and overlap can be avoided more effectively. > > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf