Anything along the lines of "mentoring" the virtual world of IETF
participants? :)
Mr. Klensin, if it wasn't for you, I would of probably lost interest in
the IETF long ago. You have reached out and assisted in more ways you
should be made aware it was very much needed and welcomed. Thank you. I
was hoping to make Orlando to meet folks such as yourself as well as my
other virtual IETF peers, but it wasn't in the cards to attend.
--
HLS
On 3/14/2013 10:42 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
--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