--On Thursday, 14 March, 2013 14:07 +0000 "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I like it a lot! > > Starting with IETF-87 I will reserve a breakfast slot for the > WG I am co-chairing and invite (in advance, the week before > the meeting) the new attendees interested in this WG to attend. Ok, three suggestions: (1) We should start working, now or next week, on an informational packet for newcomers. There should be a link to it in the registration acknowledgment if someone checks "first-time attendee" or its equivalent and it should be handed to the newcomers in paper form when they pick up registration materials (not put on a table somewhere, or accessed through a link, but handed to them with their badges). (2) The online registration materials should say, explicitly and ideally in response to someone's identifying themselves as a newcomer, that, if there are particular WGs they are interested in, they should -- join the WG mailing list immediately, rather than waiting for the meeting -- send mail to the WG chair(s) or designee introducing themselves. Of course, that requires that we tell them how to do those things. (3) I'd like to see a slot on the WG page (charter page maybe) that identifies the newcomer-welcomer for the WG. By default, that ought to be the first-listed WG Chair. That might provide lots of incentive for delegation, but that is good too. The welcomer might merely be a human mentor-pointer, but that is ok too. The point is that every WG should have someone explicitly responsible for being a newcomer contact point and we shouldn't automatically stick the WG Chair(s) with the job. john