On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Ted Lemon
<Ted(_dot_)Lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com> wrote:
I think it might also be worth encouraging working group chairs to have
working group breakfast or lunch meetings (RSVP required) where newcomers are
invited to come meet the chairs and chairs can strategically invite a few
return attendees (but fewer than newcomers so they don't get crowded out) to
establish a connection with the newcomers. If this became common it would
probably require tool work, but what do folks think of the idea in principle?
There's over 100 working groups, and about 5 slots, because lunch is often busy
for WG chairs (*DIR this, and tutorial that, and design team the other). So
where would you hold 25 parallel breakfast meetings? How would we ever manage
conflicts?
The return attendees you would want to invite would be the leaders in your
group, no? I mean the ones who you'd naturally ask to take minutes, volunteer
to edit the new document, etc. They would also tend to be overbooked for such
slots (and often they are WG chairs themselves).