On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think it might also be worth encouraging working group chairs to have working group breakfast or lunch meetings (RSVP required) where newcomers are invited to come meet the chairs and chairs can strategically invite a few return attendees (but fewer than newcomers so they don't get crowded out) to establish a connection with the newcomers. If this became common it would probably require tool work, but what do folks think of the idea in principle? There's over 100 working groups, and about 5 slots, because lunch is often busy for WG chairs (*DIR this, and tutorial that, and design team the other). So where would you hold 25 parallel breakfast meetings? How would we ever manage conflicts? The return attendees you would want to invite would be the leaders in your group, no? I mean the ones who you'd naturally ask to take minutes, volunteer to edit the new document, etc. They would also tend to be overbooked for such slots (and often they are WG chairs themselves).