Re: [Manycouches] many-fine-dinners --- a view on how to organize virtual meetings

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 23/11/2020 à 12:18, Vittorio Bertola a écrit :
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>> Il 23/11/2020 04:47 Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> ha 
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> and I don't see any easy way to avoid this, except getting back to 
> physical meetings.

I agree and f2f meetings will be back some day.

But I want to mention that, for me, even at f2f IETF meetings I had to
wake up at night or so to keep up remotely with meetings at my origin
place.

Overall, for me, after trying entirely remote experiences and entirely 
f2f experiences, I think the IETF meeting is very consuming.  This 
exhaustion is independent of being remote or f2f.  I need one week 
recovery after the meeting even if it was a virtual meeting.

That is a good point, IMHO, about virtual meetings.  It means, for me, 
that virtual meetings might be as effective as the f2f.  Or at least it 
means that the effort spent is the same.

On another hand, I can say that during the f2f meetings I was doing much 
more exercising than during the virtual meetings.  I did lots of 
additional walking during f2fs but zero exercising during virtual 
meetings.  Now the next WG meeting is a click away, not steps away.

Moreover, we had an email list ietf-runners that did see some activity 
during f2f meetings.  But zero activity when IETF is virtual.

During the virtual meetings, some people did use the expression of 
getting in the pink box, but that was just an image.  If we had a sort 
of a conveyor belt (tapis roulant, fr.) to walk on, or even to stand on, 
before taking the mic, maybe it would be good.)

Alex