Re: [Mtgvenue] Interim step on meetings site feedback for sites currently under active consideration

Dear all,

Just a quick question: are you intending on providing feedback to the IAOC?
If so, maybe it makes sense to coordinate a bit in order to prevent a
duplication of entries? Or will it be useful if multiple people point out
the same themes?

Best,

Corinne

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:50 PM, <nalini.elkins@insidethestack.com> wrote:

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> >>But
> >> I think these issues should be balanced with the overall benefit
> >> that the IETF World Tour provides.
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> >As I've said repeatedly, I don't think the world tour actually
> >does bring much benefit.  I'm very hopeful that some of the
> >South Americans who attended their first IETF meeting because
> >it was held in Buenos Aires will continue to participate (as in:
> >bring in work and participate in ongoing work, and not as in: sit
> >in meetings) but historically that has not been the case.
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> Just to put some numbers into this conversation, we have 8 people from
> Latin America who have signed up to be a part of the Internet Draft Review
> teams.   The first review team to form will likely be the Spanish-speaking
> DNSOP review team.
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> This is one week after IETF 95 and after 3 days of soliciting review teams
> and basically zero publicity.
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> I wonder if there has not been more participation in active IETF work
> before from other regions because there was no structured way to start
> participating and language insensitivity.  (BTW, there is a new member of
> the Mentoring Team from Latin America, that I met in Buenos Aires who will
> translate the Mentoring emails into Spanish.)
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> But the effort of the Mentoring Team is standing on the shoulders of
> giants.  People such as Carlos Martinez, Christian O'Flaherty, Alvaro
> Retana, Dr. Juliao Braga, and many others who have done such a tremendous
> job of outreach to their community in Latin America.
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> So, let's do some changing of history.
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> Nalini
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