Re: [108attendees] Virtual HotRFC lightning talks for IETF-108

[Aaron Falk <[e-mail]>]

Reminder: the submission deadline for HotRFC is one week from today.
--aaron

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:38 AM Aaron Falk <[e-mail]> wrote:

> *Do you have an idea, problem space, or proposal that IETFers should hear
> about?*
> *Do you want to propose IETF work but aren’t sure if your idea is ready or
> who will be interested?*
>
> Agenda requests are now being accepted for the Request for Conversation
> (HotRFC) lightning talk session. Presenters will submit a 4 minute video to
> make their case for collaboration. Interested folks can continue the
> discussion online. Goals include encouraging brainstorming conversations,
> helping new work proposals find collaborators, raising awareness of
> relevant work going on elsewhere, and promoting BarBoFs.
>
> We’re going to try to preserve the value of this session while adapting it
> to a fully online meeting. Keep in mind this is an experiment and feedback
> is welcome to improve it should we be in this situation again. With that as
> prologue, here is how we’ll do it this time:
>
>    - To request a slot, submit a short abstract to [e-mail] that
>    includes the following
>       - Talk title
>       - Presenter, Affiliation
>       - Short topic abstract (topics should be IETF-related in some way)
>       - Coordinates to learn more, contact those involved, &/or relevant
>       meetings
>    - All talks will be presented via pre-recorded video
>       - To submit a talk, send a link to a YouTube video to
>       [e-mail] no later than 2400 UTC July 21, 2020
>       - VIDEO MUST BE NO MORE THAN 4 MINUTES IN LENGTH (longer videos
>       will be rejected)
>       - We will aggregate the videos into an IETF-108 HotRFC YouTube
>       playlist on the IETF YouTube channel
>       <https://www.youtube.com/user/ietf>
>    - We will provide a Slack channel for each talk to facilitate
>    discussion.
>       - Slack has been selected because it is lighter-weight than
>       dedicated email lists and supports asynchronous messaging with history.
>       (Recall I said this was an experiment. :)
>       - Assuming no hiccups, the playlist and channels should be up
>       around July 22. I’ll send a note to the IETF & 108attendees when they are
>       ready.
>
> Past HotRFC topics have included proposals for new standards work, updates
> on relevant technologies, highlights of cross-area IETF work, potentially
> relevant research, and industry advances that could affect IETF
> participants. With strict time limits, concise talks will give viewers a
> sense of whether they’d like to know more and, importantly, coordinates on
> how to do so.
>
> I hope you’ll tune in.
>
> --aaron
>