Re: Meeting "lounges" at IETF meetings

[Mary Barnes <[e-mail]>]

Either one - I'll direct a donation to the Open Internet Endowment for
meeting rooms.  Or, we can increase the fees for legal requests as others
have been suggesting.

If you read the thread, I was responding to the takeover of the terminal
room as a meeting place.  I was trying to be constructive with my
suggestions.  You can interpret them however you want.

Mary.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Glen Zorn <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 14:13 -0500, Mary Barnes wrote:
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>  On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>
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>  On Aug 3, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Mary Barnes wrote:
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> > Instead, I think we should ensure that future venues have adequate space
> for both circulating between meeting rooms and for side conversations.
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>   Just to be clear: you would rather that we pay higher meeting fees in
> exchange for that adequate space?
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>  [MB] Yes. [/MB]
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> Just to be even clearer, are you offering to pay those higher fees out of
> your own pocket or just to type a larger number into your expense report?
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> > I suggest that you could cut the cookie budget if funds really are the
> only reason this wouldn't be done.
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>   That is one way to pay for the extra space; it might not be so popular
> in this particular crowd.
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>  [MB]  Yes, I know it's not at all a popular idea (to reduce cookies),
> BUT we have had adequate space at previous meetings for which we paid the
> same meeting fee, so it seems possible to get space without increasing
> meeting fees (and I thought Vancouver was selected as it was deemed a very
> moderately priced venue for meetings).   Note, that we did get additional
> space on the 34th floor during the week (which I assumed we paid for).
> Also, there was a block of rooms on the 2nd floor that we did not use for
> our meetings.  [/MB]
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> --Paul Hoffman
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