PDFs of all received BoF posters have been uploaded to the Meeting Materials page for those who are interested: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/87/materials.html.
Regards, Alexa On Jul 26, 2013, at 3:36 AM, Benoit Claise wrote: > John, >> >> --On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 09:22 +0300 IETF Chair >> <ch...@ietf.org> wrote: >> >>> I wanted to let you know about an experiment we are trying out >>> in Berlin. >>> ... >>> But we want as many people as possible to become involved in >>> these efforts, or at least provide their feedback during the >>> week. So we have given an opportunity for the BOFs to display >>> a poster in the Welcome Reception (Sunday 5pm to 7pm). If you >>> are attending the reception, take a look at the posters and >>> look for topics that interest you. Someone running the BOF is >>> also likely standing by, so you can also get directly involved >>> in discussions, sign up to help, etc. We hope that this helps >>> you all network with others even more :-) >> In the interest of encouraging remote participation and >> involvement in those BOFs, could these posters be made available >> online before the reception? > I'm not sure that those posters will/should contain more information than > what http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki contains. > So I'm questioning whether making those posters available online before the > meeting, or even in the meeting minutes (to answer your next question) is > that useful. > > Let me explain what the targeted audience is for those posters. > It's not intended for the people who know about a specific BoF and plan on > participating. > It's intended for people who have not prepared for a specific BoF, but just > come to listen to it, and in the end, go to mic. to provide some useful > feedback: "pay attention to this!", "similar work was done ...", "don't > forget that ...", "don't forget OPS" ;-) > > Talking about my experience now, it's only now that I'm an IESG member that I > know what the BoFs are about before the IETF week. In the past, I would look > at the agenda early in the week, and based on the BoF name/acronym (yes, > nothing more), I would decide to attend a specific BoF. However, if I would > discuss the BoF topic for just a minute or two, I could quickly decide > whether I'm interested and whether I could add some value to a BoF. This > discussion generally took place at the welcome reception. This is "this > minute or two discussion" that posters at the welcome reception should > facilitate, thanks to the person standing next to the poster. > > Sure, everything is on the web, or sent to a mailing list, but we have way > too many emails already. > > Regards, Benoit >> Will they eventually be >> incorporated into the minutes? >> >> And, incidentally, is there a way for remote participants to >> sign up for one or both meeting-related mailing lists without >> registering (or using a "remote participation registration" >> mechanism, which would be my preference for other reasons)? >> >> thanks, >> john >> >> >> >> > ---------- Alexa Morris / Executive Director / IETF 48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117, Fremont, CA 94538 Phone: +1.510.492.4089 / Fax: +1.510.492.4001 Email: amor...@amsl.com Managed by Association Management Solutions (AMS) Forum Management, Meeting and Event Planning www.amsl.com <http://www.amsl.com/>
