Re: [108attendees] Successful IETF 108

[Benoit Claise <[e-mail]>]

On 04/08/2020 04:32, Keith Moore wrote:
>
> On 8/3/20 10:17 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>
>> There's an assumption in here that the presenting of the slides 
>> doesn't have any benefit, which I don't believe is true.
>>
>> As the presenter talks through the slides they are aligning the 
>> thoughts of everybody in the room (including themselves) and hence 
>> when we get to the conversation, everybody has the cache state loaded 
>> into their brain and the conversation can be productive.  I don't 
>> think that "read the slides in advance and come with questions" will 
>> give the same alignment.
>>
>> I'm not saying "there's not better way", but it's worth considering 
>> the positives of the existing patterns and seeing how we can preserve 
>> them.
>>
> I think it makes more sense to say "given that meeting time is 
> precious even when people don't have to physically travel to the 
> meetings, what's the most effective way to use that time to further 
> the goals of the group?"
Granted. Time is always precious but not so precious as during a 
physical meeting week.

Most of the time, the speed of an organization depends on the number of 
meetings per year. With 4 meetings/year instead of 3, we know that IETF 
would move faster. To (try to) be on par with opensource projects speed, 
we have to adopt monthly or bi-weekly virtual calls. Whether you call 
that design team (with only active participants) or working group 
meeting (with everybody), it's a detail.

Those recurring virtual calls is also what we have in most companies in 
our industry. With 2 possible outcomes. Either the project takes off 
rapidly, or there is a lack of interest/energy/time and the project 
dies. Both are valid outcomes for IETF drafts and WGs.

Regards, Benoit