Re: [Ietf108planning] FW: Preview of survey on virtual meetings

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

> > Wow what a strange way to select a country... Can we simply list them? (I love to see
> > Belgium at the top for once :-) )
>
> I agree that we really don't need this level of granularity -- a major
> geography option seems better, just like we do for.... oh, bugger, I
> didn't realize we capture this level of granularity for meetings --
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/stats/meeting/106/country/

Even if we need the country, a simple alphabetical list of countries is best.
If there's some reason to separate them by continent, it's certainly
neither necessary nor useful to separate, say, Eastern Europe from
Northern Europe.

> I'm somewhat uncomfortable that this survey it too long / granular,
> and that we are overcollecting / people will get bored midway through
> and we bias towards hardcore attendees...

Exactly the comment I was going to make: this is way too long.  If we
do something like this, we *have to* keep track of how many people
bail out... how many answer some of the earlier questions and none of
the later ones.

> "Subscriber to an IETF mailing list within the last year"  -- this
> feels like weird wording. I don't think I **subscribed** to any
> mailing lists last year...

This one, in particular, is likely to mislead, and the wording that's
there now is *better* than the suggested change.  We don't want to
know whether you created a *new* subscription, which is what I hear
from "subscribed to".  We want to know whether, during the last year,
you were a subscriber -- whether you follow discussions, which is hard
to judge, so "being subscribed" is a lame proxy for that.

> "Posted to an IETF mailing list within the last year", "Posted to an
> IRTF mailing list within the last year" (and similar) -- do we need
> this level of granularity? Could it instead be "Posted to an IETF or
> IRTF mailing list within the last year" (and same for subscribe,
> chair, etc).

I agree.  If we want to know about IETF and IRTF separately, we could
simply ask "participate in IETF working groups" and "participate in
IRTF research groups".  It's a lot harder to tease out levels of
participation, and I'm not sure to what extent it's useful to try.

> "Have each WG write 3 sentences to justify why they need to meet
> during the meeting week rather than as an interim meeting" --- oooh,
> interesting, but how do we evaluate the answers? Monkey knife fight?

I went both ways on this when I read it, but in the end decided that
it has to be the responsible AD who decides, and then "discuss with
you responsible AD" works better for me than "each working group write
an essay."

> I think that there are way too many time zones listed - we may need to
> manually make a drop down if survey monkey doesn't have a ~24 item
> list... Yes, we may miss UTC+12:45, but meh...

Honestly, most of us are quite used to picking our time zones out of
long TZ lists anyway.  I don't really see that as a problem.

Barry