Oh look! [Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials]

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And there is a "Training" section in the meeting materials page.
It's empty... but thanks to somebody for putting it there.
All we need to do is figure out how to pre-load it.

Regards
   Brian

On 27/07/2013 08:33, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 27/07/2013 03:32, John C Klensin wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> For a newcomer or someone expecting to write I-Ds, some of the
>> most important sessions at the IETF are the various Sunday
>> afternoon tutorials and introductions.  Many of them are (or
>> should be) of as much interest to remote participants as to f2f
>> attendees.   Until and unless a newcomer's tutorial can be
>> prepared that is focused on remote participants, even that
>> session should be of interest.
>>
>> For this particular meeting all of the following seem relevant
>> to at least some remote participants:
>>
>> 	Newcomers' Orientation       
>> 	Tools for Creating I-Ds and RFCs         
>> 	IAOC Overview Session     
>> 	Multipath TCP         
>> 	Applying IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) to Network
>> Measurement and Management
>>
>> So...
>>
>> (1) The note below strongly implies that none of those sessions
>> are being audiocast.    Why not and can that be fixed?
> 
> I think that would mean that the crew (partly volunteers) would
> need to mobilise 24 hours earlier. Not impossible, I suppose,
> but not free of costs either.
> 
>> (2) There is no hint on the agenda or tools agenda about
>> availability of presentation and related materials (slides,
>> etc.) for those sessions.  Do those materials not exist? 
> 
> At the moment the various EDU tutorials usually get posted after
> the event, and I agree that isn't ideal.
> 
> It would be useful for all these ancillary sessions to be included
> in the "meeting materials" page and all agenda tools (official and
> volunteer). Again, not impossible, in fact very desirable IMHO,
> but not free.
> 
>     Brian
>> I
>> know, but a newcomer or remote participant might not, that I can
>> find some tutorials by going to the IETF main page and going to
>> "Tutorial" under "Resources", but I have no idea which of those
>> links actually reflects what will be presented on Sunday.
>> Assuming the presentation materials do exist for at least
>> several of the sessions, finding them is much like the situation
>> with subscribing to the 87all list.  It should no involve a
>> treasure hunt at which only very experienced IETF participants
>> can be expected to succeed.  
>>
>> Specific suggestions:
>>
>> (i) Let's get these open Sunday sessions audiocast and/or
>> available over Meetecho or WebEx.  If that is impossible for
>> IETF 87, it should be a priority for IETF 88 and later.
>>
>> (ii) If there are presentation materials available, links from
>> the tools agenda and an announcement to IETF-Announce as to
>> where to find them would be desirable.
>>
>> (iii) If presentation materials are not available, why not?
>> And, more important, can this be made a requirement for IETF 88
>> and beyond?
>>
>> thanks,
>>     john
>>
>>
>>
>> --On Friday, July 26, 2013 12:00 +0200 Nick Kukich
>> <nkukich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> For those interested in monitoring sessions or participating
>>> remotely the following information may prove useful.
>>> ...
>>> All 8 parallel tracks at the IETF 87 meeting will be broadcast
>>> starting with the commencement of working group sessions on
>>> Monday, July 29, 2013 at 0900 CEST (UTC+2) and continue until
>>> the close of sessions on Friday, August 2nd.
>>> ...
>>
> 




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