John,
--On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 09:22 +0300 IETF Chair
<chair@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wanted to let you know about an experiment we are trying out
in Berlin.
...
But we want as many people as possible to become involved in
these efforts, or at least provide their feedback during the
week. So we have given an opportunity for the BOFs to display
a poster in the Welcome Reception (Sunday 5pm to 7pm). If you
are attending the reception, take a look at the posters and
look for topics that interest you. Someone running the BOF is
also likely standing by, so you can also get directly involved
in discussions, sign up to help, etc. We hope that this helps
you all network with others even more :-)
In the interest of encouraging remote participation and
involvement in those BOFs, could these posters be made available
online before the reception?
I'm not sure that those posters will/should contain more information
than what http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki contains.
So I'm questioning whether making those posters available online before
the meeting, or even in the meeting minutes (to answer your next
question) is that useful.
Let me explain what the targeted audience is for those posters.
It's not intended for the people who know about a specific BoF and plan
on participating.
It's intended for people who have not prepared for a specific BoF, but
just come to listen to it, and in the end, go to mic. to provide some
useful feedback: "pay attention to this!", "similar work was done ...",
"don't forget that ...", "don't forget OPS" ;-)
Talking about my experience now, it's only now that I'm an IESG member
that I know what the BoFs are about before the IETF week. In the past, I
would look at the agenda early in the week, and based on the BoF
name/acronym (yes, nothing more), I would decide to attend a specific
BoF. However, if I would discuss the BoF topic for just a minute or two,
I could quickly decide whether I'm interested and whether I could add
some value to a BoF. This discussion generally took place at the welcome
reception. This is "this minute or two discussion" that posters at the
welcome reception should facilitate, thanks to the person standing next
to the poster.
Sure, everything is on the web, or sent to a mailing list, but we have
way too many emails already.
Regards, Benoit
Will they eventually be
incorporated into the minutes?
And, incidentally, is there a way for remote participants to
sign up for one or both meeting-related mailing lists without
registering (or using a "remote participation registration"
mechanism, which would be my preference for other reasons)?
thanks,
john