Hi Vinayak, First, well done, I fully agree with your email. I have two questions for you/the group: 1) I wonder if in your proposal you are considering some sort of charge for remote participation. IMHO I do not think we are yet prepare to charge. 2) When you mention that filling the responses (pre-IETF) is voluntary, so, I guess it's not mandatory, am I right?. We should also define what pre-IETF is..., it sounds obvious but it can be read as the pre-WG session. I would add to your proposal some kind of activities from local ISOC chapters. Thanks, Alejandro, On 8/12/13, Vinayak Hegde <vinayakh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > There has been a lot of discussion on the IETF mailing list regarding > improving remote participation and improving diversity on the mailing > lists and in the working groups. I think the two are related. I think > everyone broadly agrees that remote participation can be better. If > nothing else, it will tell about who the remote participants are. I > had proposed a few steps in this direction by improving the data > collection for remote participation in the IAOC Sunday meeting. > Posting them below again for discussion on the mailing lists. > > It can be a simple form that asks the following questions (Can be > refined - this is just a start) > 1. Name: > 2. Country: > 3. Duration of participation in IETF (either in number of years or > number of meetings) > 4. Employer ? > 5. Working groups interested in. > > This can be voluntary and can be done pre-IETF meeting. As of now > there is no structured way to know how many people wre active in the > jabber room or listening on the audio stream. > > I can see that this has multiple benefits. > 1. If the number of participants in a certain WG is more, it would > push the WG chair to request for the slides/agenda available earlier. > > 2. If there are consistently more participation from around the world, > the the WG chair can request for a meetecho recording so people can > follow the group even if they cannot attend the meeting live. This > could be useful for people who have clashing schedules as well. > > 3. Over a longer period of time, it can help IETF plan and encourage > remote participation. Currently there is no hard data on number of > remote participants. There is however a lot of hand waving so this > will get some useful data into the system. > > -- Vinayak > -- ===== ^A.......o$