Re: One Day Guest Pass

Hi,

On 2009-8-21, at 16:01, David Harrington wrote:
> Maybe we should have an RFID reader/recorder at the door to each
> session, and to send bills to people based on what they actually
> attend (plus a base fee).
...
> This approach might also cut down on people using sessions
> to just read email and power their computers; the terminal room might
> become more popular.
I think this would be bad. I don't want to make it harder for people  
to attend WGs, I want to make it easier. The nice thing with a flat  
fee is that you can just go to a WG you don't normally attend to see  
what they're about.
I do agree with what I think you intend to achieve here: creating a  
lower-latency interaction channel for the folks who actually came  
prepared to *work* at a meeting. Long distances to the mike and seats  
of rows make that currently very hard. Some rooms at the venue in  
Stockholm were particularly bad.
One half-baked proposal that a few of us discussed was to go back to  
the seating system we had in place a few years back, i.e., only sit in  
the first n rows if you have read the docs and are prepared to work.  
Actually, the proposal was even more radical: Put a conference table  
(rectangular seating) with omni mikes on it at the front of the room  
for those who come prepared to work, and leave "spectator seating"  
with the regular floor mikes for everyone who is observing. You could  
even set up some useful remote attendance system for the smaller  
conference table, which we never really figured out how to do for  
larger settings.
That seating change would go hand-in-hand with another proposed  
change, namely, elimination of 10-minute "here's what's changed from  
-0x to -0x+1" talks with no useful purpose. Have the WG decide before  
a meeting which are the top issues to work through at the meeting,  
each issue gets 30 minutes for discussion, i.e., you get 2-5 issues  
per session depending on the slot length.
I may go pitch this to some TSV chairs to see if we can experiment  
with this in Hiroshima...
Lars

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