[Manycouches] DOGFOOD Virtual BoF

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

At IETF we had a bar BoF which hopefully quite a few people on this mailing list attended.   At the BoF we had a round table discussion about what peoples ideas were for getting the IETF into a new mode of operation that makes better use of the technology we’ve developed, rather than requiring in-person meetings as a driver for getting work done.

At the BoF we agreed to have a virtual BoF online in about a month.   It’s about two weeks before the deadline for that, so I wanted to have a quick discussion about what to do at this BoF before announcing it.  Because this is not an IETF working group, the usual notification requirements don’t technically apply, but on a practical level I think two weeks notice is just as necessary for a virtual BoF as for a virtual interim, so I’m going to ask the secretariat to announce it the same way.

I would like to try out some of the stuff that Wes talked about in his presentation at HotRFC: rather than just doing a normal BoF, I’d like to see if we can use existing tools to achieve some of what Wes described.   We will still want to do some online video discussion, but I’d also like to try using a Wiki and an interim-only mailing list as the primary communication method, and do the BoF over two days to give us time to participate in the way Wes described.   This may fail miserably or may go well—we can only find out by trying.

If we go ahead with this, one of the things I will ask is that you add to the Wiki your recollection of what you said in the bar BoF.   I at least didn’t take notes, and I don’t think Wes did either, but I think there was a lot of useful stuff exchanged there.

Does anybody object to this approach?   If I don’t hear loud objections, I’ll set up a wiki and ask people to work on it; I’d like it if we could do that work before the interim so that at the interim we can talk about it and form some ideas for experimentation.

Thanks!