David Harrington wrote: > 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. The best fit solution will be the one that screws everyone more or less equally... > 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 > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf