On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
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 strongly agree with Lars on this one. I do not want the IETF to
become like an Hospital in the USA, where you don't know what the
actual bill is until some time after you leave.
Regards
Marshall
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...
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