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On May 24, 2016, at 11:24, Adrian Farrel
<adrian(_at_)olddog(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
Alia,
I've wondered about whether it would help/add to have pictures of IETFers
associated with their IETF datatracker account. We do have a gallery of
photos for WG chairs, but I have no sense of how much those are used.
I have repeatedly been told that the WG chair photos are really useful for
people attending f2f meetings who want to seek out chairs to talk with them.
The same would probably apply to any IETFer with whom they wanted to make
contact at an f2f meeting.
[snip]
I would love to figure out how to recreate the types of serendipitous
interactions
and 'hallway' conversations that happen - but in an on-line setting.
A few years back the IESG caused the creation of
hallway(_at_)jabber(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org. When I was on the IESG I tried to
remember to hang out there when my jabber client was open. I think a couple
of other ADs tried as well. As I recall, it was very rare for anyone else to
be there and over a couple of years I think I fielded just one question.
Concurrency is a problem. Actual hallways and meeting rooms enforce it because
you actually have to be there to have serendipitous encounters. Chat clients
demand a certain amount of simultaneity that our other methods (mailing lists
in particular) do not.
Adrian