-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/14/13 10:30 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: > > 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, I doubt that all WG chairs will do this, and Ted didn't say it would be a mandate. > 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? Informal breakfast get-togethers. Not meetings! > 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). Quite possibly. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRQd//AAoJEOoGpJErxa2pD1EP/1MI3awYoZkS2VRMDX9aRI+I u4O+JTC9FriMYdXTnbHRCLeMo47lL2nSG6gCt601e7/71pnBTcMHBslLho+87BXL x+Qb+xMtxSc8kYzLACIOZI6Z8Rn4qdzAPnyEYrhhAIreTH0Wh831utj7Vj+jQlke gP8e+qqiCoOyZK4j0YPzL33EuuA1cqM1Vix0bzfnAd74MEI28ch4wPlN3Auhje+5 t3xUBOxs/kqv+FfGpTKrY0jVaTs02TdUMrL1mbFSEaRZ+89zA8tGvNqFmLAEcPbq HYaqoMtHawtWj41+NOuP9o229gomlzVKAssKObpW7A/xTSn+oWCRYRYQh2ocxra+ P7SVLsj4ewpb236o3tMTlj8P8Y+SV02s+Msr52B9sMh2LXkVwKlwkg7LuzDpL6Te 1jHLYicsekySWp1qCzAOK5pchWktvzF1isJzb+Mqzk2kSteTNS0zDZ23SVZgQnr0 UEdY4RY9czYz3Ld6DJJK+sgrVzWp6ZDsG4AELdhQPScvL3Nu+KxQlScYQfOYPmaR qBD406bHYCAbeZB7RBPK6vnKxNHaDbsoSz70z3r/1na1KYdpDVEXbCzoLL0pvW1I //wj00bi0fkI6DoZodIAHy21ZQcMwrhLrcwjRahMmX7nx9feRngk/ebljEt6jxDK CGIBB7TdAsmI/tDMa2sJ =DFN2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----