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Re: reception not useful for WG chairs

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 06 May 2019 20:08 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
To: Benoit Claise <bclaise@cisco.com>, wgchairs@ietf.org
Subject: Re: reception not useful for WG chairs
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Benoit Claise <bclaise@cisco.com> wrote:
    > So what about restoring the initial goal for the Sunday reception, i.e.
    > connect ... instead of (yeah, I see it coming), having yet another additional
    > closed meeting.

Right, that's why I changed the subject to what I did.

Some other things have changed since we started having the Sunday reception
as being the first cmte-of-the-whole meeting of the week.  Things include the
Saturday code-sprint and Saturday/Sunday Hackathon, IEPG on Sunday morning,
and the entire EDU team of topics which are no longer only "newcomer" focused.

Personally, as an introvert (who knew), I find that by Sunday afternoon I've
had more than enough interaction for the day already.
And so I've generally disappeared to feed my running addiction, to return
only at the end of the reception period.

Forever gone, for me, are the days of landing at 10am on Sunday morning and
wondering what to do until I can check-in.  To be clear, that kind of
(unstructured) idle time is what contributes to the highly productive, but
usually totally-by-chance hallway/lounge-bar chats.

Montreal will again, I expect, be a breakfast-provided-by-IETF, based upon
the usual North-American-Hotels-do-not-feed-you.  Combined with having the
unstructured time at the beginning of the day, and the resulting bit of extra
time, I suspect that this will provide for a lot of space-time for ad-hoc
discussions.   Isn't this what the reception was providing for before?

A point of having people standing around with consumables is to reduce their
mouths to half-duplex mode, permitting their ears the full bandwidth, and
providing a high-turnaround time before they can verbally object.

We could tether the ADs to tables distributed around the reception room such
that they were easier to find, and wouldn't clump together.  That's what made
the newcomer's space so useful for WG chairs.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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