PDFs of all received BoF posters have been uploaded to the Meeting Materials page for those who are interested: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/87/materials.html. Regards, Alexa On Jul 26, 2013, at 3:36 AM, Benoit Claise wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> > ---------- Alexa Morris / Executive Director / IETF 48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117, Fremont, CA 94538 Phone: +1.510.492.4089 / Fax: +1.510.492.4001 Email: amorris@xxxxxxxx Managed by Association Management Solutions (AMS) Forum Management, Meeting and Event Planning www.amsl.com <http://www.amsl.com/>