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

[Aaron Falk <[e-mail]>]

Reminder: cutoff for HotRFC submissions is tomorrow: 2400 UTC July 21, 
2020.

On 7 Jul 2020, at 8:38, Aaron Falk 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