On 10/22/11 23:26 , Dave CROCKER wrote:
On 10/21/2011 7:58 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
It's increasingly the case that if you
want to do work at the IETF, you need to go to meetings. I'd have
considerable reservations about asking for the kind of money you're
suggesting.
Melinda,
I've changed the subject line because the point you raise is orthogonal
to the main thread, but since you raise it, it's worth exploring a bit
(since I happen to agree with your observation.)
The dynamics that make this true seem to have to do with changes in our
community rather than in the nature of the technical work or the online
tools.
So the question is how to move the center of gravity back to mailing lists?
So, I'm a co-chair of a rather busy working group with a lot of remote
participants, and I'm reasonably convinced that the center of gravity is
the mailing list, this despite occasionaly needing three meetings to get
through our agenda.
I will observe having scribed for the same working group, that remote
participation via the mailing list is a dramatically larger number of
particpants than during the meeting itself.
d/
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