Re: Proposed Group: CoVid-19 Remote Meet, Work, Class Community Group

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@xxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth,

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:13 PM Larry Masinter <LMM@xxxxxxx> wrote:

• global call-to-action for the ISoc/IRTF/IETF, W3C, Apache, Linux Foundation, FSF, OSI, etc. communities

 

I thought we might need a group focused on guidelines for people faced with an immediate need to support virtual meetings, work from home, remote classes.

What are best practices? For the world, not just for IETF; for immediate effect, not just “some day” (subject of Manycouches discussion).

That's a really interesting idea, and Larry also points out that it's not clear that any of the organizations in his list of communities can do this without help from at least some of the others.  

This was the one thing I wish we'd done differently after IETF 95/Zika - we started Manycouches thinking about an in-person meeting with emergency cancellations by many participants, like the one we'd just dodged, but preplanned entirely-virtual meetings also crept into scope, and what we ended up with for IETF 107 was an emergency entirely-virtual meeting - the worst of all combinations. 

I hope we continue planning for all of these, but not at the same time, with the same people, in the same forum. The skill sets required overlap, but they aren't the same.

IMO, of course.

Spencer

 

https://www.w3.org/community/blog/2020/03/10/proposed-group-covid-19-remote-meet-work-class-community-group/

 

 

 

From: Manycouches <manycouches-bounces@xxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Joseph Potvin
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 9:39 AM
To: IETF Rinse Repeat <ietf@xxxxxxxx>; manycouches@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Manycouches] [107all] Update on IETF 107 Vancouver and COVID-19

 

RE: "I don't have any idea whether anything on this thread recently, including this note, are of value to the people actually making
the decision as to whether to hold a f2f meeting"

 

I suggest that the current scenario is a impromptu resilience test and global call-to-action for the ISoc/IRTF/IETF, W3C, Apache, Linux Foundation, FSF, OSI, etc. communities.

Joseph Potvin
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