On 12/06/2015 08:17, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 6/11/15 11:44 AM, Alia Atlas wrote: >> One aspect is to work on improving and discussing how to handle >> consensus issues for the WG Chairs. Anyone who hasn't read through >> RFC 7282 really should. In the Routing area, we've been having >> periodic Working Group chair training sessions. You can see the >> presentation and recording for the one we did "On Consensus" at: >> http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/rtg/trac/wiki/WGChairTraining . > > These are really nice - might be useful as a basis for a > working group chairs training track. Right now there really > isn't such thing - the working group chairs training sessions > are useful and I think need to continue as is, but some sort > of training for new chairs seems valuable and might help us > avoid some of what's under discussion at the moment. There has been a "WG Leadership" tutorial from time to time in the past; in fact it ran at IETF92 (for the first time since IETF86): http://www.ietf.org/edu/process-oriented-tutorials.html#wgleadership One of the things we need to discuss at the EDUNEXT BOF is whether the traditional format of 90 minute tutorials on Sunday afternoon is still useful, and whether it should be supplemented or replaced by a suite of shorter videos and longer webinars that could be available any time, any place. Brian