Re: BoF's in the Age of Covids

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Michael Thomas <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > It's been my impression that a substantial amount of the work for
    > putting together BoF's, etc has been done loosely and informally
    > usually in the setting of a meeting and drinking beers with others (aka
    > bar BoF). Since we seem to be doing neither neither these days, from
    > what I can tell this list is the closest to that in purpose. Yet since
    > it's ietf-wide it includes lots of different areas and interests it's
    > easy to see how the signal to noise ratio might get bad in a

I agree that [e-mail] is a good starting point, but I think one needs to
take a bit of a shotgun to a half-dozen other MLs to let people know you are
thinking of something.  [e-mail] is not universally read, alas.
Also making use of Any-of-Other-Business section of other virtual interims to
talk briefly about things.   I wouldn't be afraid of babbling about such
things in the jabber, DURING (virtual) meetings, but also in hallway@

Our new tradition of "dispatch" areas is also a good thing.

People write drafts, and it might be that intentionally invoking Cunningham's
Law is a good idea.

    > it. With a bar BoF it is much easier to gauge interest given the number
    > of people who show up, and the number of beers consumed. 

agreed.

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