Re: Meeting "lounges" at IETF meetings

[Scott Brim <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Greetings again. Some meeting venues have had insufficient places where five or so people could comfortably gather for informal meetings, while other venues did this just fine. One proposal has been that the Secretariat reserve large rooms for this. Unfortunately, that adds significant cost to the meetings.
>
> Instead, I propose that we simply designate the terminal room (which is already reserved for future meetings) be designated as meeting areas where talking is allowed / encouraged. Earplugs could be provided for people who really want a quiet Ethernet connection; the cost of those for the Secretariat will be about $25/meeting.

Sounds good.

I volunteer to collect free headsets from airplanes and put them out
for people to take.