Re: [Mtgvenue] Was Brisbane a success to be repeated ?

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > Mark, clearly you guys just need to report this issue to the Australian
    > government so that they can do something to ameliorate the situation. E.g.
    > could Australia perhaps be moved a little closer to everyone else? I have a
    > friend in Melbourne I'd like to visit more than once every ten years!

Looking at the various flora from my (~14h, not yet done) train ride today,
many species look familiar while others do not.  I also saw toads or frogs on
Monday night in the rain, and I know one is indigenous, and the other
introduced.  Which is which, I couldn't tell.

But, it was all Pangaea at some point.  I just don't know why there had to
have been only one continent. But the wikipedia maps suggest that Australia
was adjacent to Antartica, as was India and South America adjacent.  That
suggests to me, that in order to *BEST* encourage new participants from other
than Asia/Europe/NorthAmerica that we should locate in Antartica.

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    > Being slightly more serious, I will once again harp on my assertion that
    > the IETF really needs to figure out how to more effectively use the
    > Internet to do what we currently only seem to be able to do well in person.

I too.
I think that we are doing well in some areas with virtual interim meetings,
but I know that you don't like the cadence of some WGs.  Also, those WGs,
despite lots of meetings, still seem to occupy plenary week slots.  For me,
it's the schedule conflicts that are killing us.

I wonder if, instead of having WG meetings, we could just do trust games.
As has been discussed many times, the in-person meetings allow for people to
gain trust in others that is not possible via email.  Probably pheromonal.
This in-person trust is, I guess, not very transitive.f

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Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works
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