On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
The costs for a poster session are almost 0. Isn't this something we
can just try?
I don't agree that the costs are zero. You can't have the poster session last
all week long, because the presenter may want to go to other sessions. So we
need about 2 hours reserved for this. Maybe a morning session.
But then scheduling a WG meeting at the same time is like scheduling a TV
series episode opposite the superbowl (substitute your country's favorite sport
finals here). And all the ADs would want to go to the poster session, because
that's where the action is. So this reduces the amount of time slots that we
have in an IETF week.
Also, this puts another constraint on choosing a venue. You need an area with
room for lots of people, and space to put the "booths" or "desks" all around.
For example, Anaheim did not have a good area to hold a poster session.
Maastricht did. No idea about Beijing.
It may be a cost we agree to bear, but it is not zero.
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