On 27-Mar-19 08:07, Michael Richardson wrote: > Salz, Rich <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> New participants could also stand to get some training. > > > We offer newcomer's training on Sunday, and the same presentation a > > couple of times the weeks before the IETF. Are there other things > > we could do? See https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/104/newcomers/ > > and > https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/materials/slides-104-edu-sesse-newcomers-overview-for-ietf-104-00 > > Mostly, it not the newcomers that need help being nice to newcomers. > They need training on having appropriately thick skins. Please read the 3rd paragraph at https://www.ietf.org/about/participate/get-started/starting/ If you think that summary (which I drafted some years ago) is wrong, somebody in the EMO directorate can presumably get it updated. Brian