I haven't observed that many newcomers at the newcomer meet-and-greet. They seem to be overwhelmed (numerically) by the ADs+chairs that go, which is reinforced by ADs+chairs using it as a taking-care-of-business opportunity as John observed.
So, also along the "much as I like free beer", maybe it should be just the ADs, unless the number of newcomers that go increases. -MSK On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>>> "Ted" == Ted Lemon <[email protected]> writes: > >> I personally believe that while strongly recommending to the WG > >> chairs to adopt the concept we should leave the implementation up > >> to each of them without much formalization and process > >> building. Let us not forget that we will have a variety of WGs > >> from large WGs meeting the first time with a lot of new > >> participants to small WGs at their 20th or 40th meeting with a > >> handful of new participants and anything in the middle. > > Ted> They will need a mechanism for addressing newcomers, unless we > Ted> think that we can just rely on the working group mailing lists. > > Let's assume for a moment that we do that. > First, WG chairs can receive a message when people subscribe. > They can also set some welcome text that go to new users. > > If we leverage that part, then we can perhaps build a kind of > FAQ/Checklist for new people. Given that I also said that I wanted > additional semi-official hats that can be delegated out, the roles of: > 1) list manager > 2) newcomer greeter > > come to mind. > > As to the newcomer meet and greet... I actually think we got it a bit > backwards. I think that WG chairs should be uninvited. (as much as I > like free beer). Rather, I think that the newcomer meet and greet > (and free beer) should follow the newcomer orientation session. > > Instead, I think that newcomers need to meet other newcomers. If they > are going to meet with a mentor/greeter person, then a slot just before > the reception would be good... I'd say just open the reception doors to > newcomers and the mentors 20 minutes early. > > -- > Michael Richardson > -on the road- > > > > > > >
