Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 7/2/10 8:29 PM, Simon Lyall wrote: > Unless people serious intended for the organisation to have regular [1] > meetings outside of North America (which I doubt) then it should retain > the current general name and focus. > > [1] - At least 50% in Europe, Asia, ROW , not one every 5 years in M

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Randy Bush
> Unless people serious intended for the organisation to have regular [1] > meetings outside of North America (which I doubt) then it should retain > the current general name and focus. why? we hove the world series! :) hubris is not a quality we lack. randy _

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Simon Lyall
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Scott Weeks wrote: > --- j...@west.net wrote: > group. This transition is going to be difficult enough without changing > the fundamental purpose of the organization. > --- > I just meant the name. Nothing else. That's a biggie, though, as

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Daniel Golding
You can have a professionally run conference without making it a pay-for-play vendor dominated event. Its not even hard to do. - Dan On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 7/1/10 11:53 AM, Daniel Golding wrote: > >> The way forward is to have sharp cut-off from having >> quasi-

Re: [Nanog-futures] WBN and NANOG-Crashing

2010-07-02 Thread vijay gill
adam, stop muck raking. in general, I'd advocate spending less time on mailing lists and focusing more on delivering great product. /vijay On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Adam Rothschild wrote: > I've been trying to avoid this topic, though as one of few > participants familiar with MediaMelon'

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 14:12 -0700, Scott Weeks a écrit : > > --- hanni...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > > --- s...@gibbard.org wrote: > > > > NANOG, or NewNOG, or whatever it ends up being called, > > -- > > >

[Nanog-futures] WBN and NANOG-Crashing

2010-07-02 Thread Adam Rothschild
I've been trying to avoid this topic, though as one of few participants familiar with MediaMelon's account of what happened (we've been looking at their product, independently of this all), I feel obligated to offer my two cents... The underlying facts are not in dispute -- Kumar from MediaMelon *

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 7/1/10 11:53 AM, Daniel Golding wrote: > The way forward is to have sharp cut-off from having > quasi-professional meetings and transition into having real events. > Real events have real sponsorship models, not a few bucks for a break > or a beer and gear. Real events are planned a year in adv

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Scott Weeks
--- j...@west.net wrote: group. This transition is going to be difficult enough without changing the fundamental purpose of the organization. --- I just meant the name. Nothing else. That's a biggie, though, as everyone knows the nanog name. scott

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 7/2/10 1:37 PM, Michael Dillon wrote: >> The intent coming into the change was to move forward with a transition of >> NANOG, not create a new organization with a different mandate. The NANOG >> group mirrors similar groups in other regions and is focused primarily on >> serving the North Ameri

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Scott Weeks
--- hanni...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > --- s...@gibbard.org wrote: > > NANOG, or NewNOG, or whatever it ends up being called, > -- > Has that already been decided? It's most certainly not NA operators only. > GNO

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Dillon
> The intent coming into the change was to move forward with a transition of > NANOG, not create a new organization with a different mandate.  The NANOG > group mirrors similar groups in other regions and is focused primarily on > serving the North American operator community, You are wrong there.

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Dillon
> NANOG, or NewNOG, or whatever it ends up being called, > -- > > Has that already been decided?  It's most certainly not NA operators only.   > GNOG? (global) If you check out the initial bylaws at http://www.newnog.org/docs/initialbylaws.pdf you will see, in A

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > > > --- s...@gibbard.org wrote: > > NANOG, or NewNOG, or whatever it ends up being called, > -- > > > > Has that already been decided?  It's most certainly not NA operators only.   > GNOG? (global) > > scott >

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Michael K. Smith
On 7/2/10 1:02 PM, "Scott Weeks" wrote: > > > --- s...@gibbard.org wrote: > > NANOG, or NewNOG, or whatever it ends up being called, > -- > > > > Has that already been decided? It's most certainly not NA operators only. > GNOG? (global) > > scott >

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Scott Weeks
--- s...@gibbard.org wrote: NANOG, or NewNOG, or whatever it ends up being called, -- Has that already been decided? It's most certainly not NA operators only. GNOG? (global) scott

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Daniel Golding wrote: > The way forward is to have sharp cut-off from having > quasi-professional meetings and transition into having real events. > Real events have real sponsorship models, not a few bucks for a break > or a beer and gear. Real events are planned a year in adv

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Sean Figgins
Andy Davidson wrote: > A good quality meeting 'Fringe' is a defining characteristic of a mature > community. Let it happen. The fringe is the test-bed for stuff too crazy or > early for the formal agenda. Promote this ad-hoc stuff on the nanog site. A > good fringe will encourage more long-

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Daniel Golding
Clearly, thats not what anyone is talking about. We are not, as a rule, academics. We also need a funding model. We have a wide range of folks, from technical staff to senior management attend NANOG. - Dan On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Sean Figgins wrote: > On 7/1/10 2:50 PM, Randy Bush wrote

Re: [Nanog-futures] Moving Forward - What kind of NANOG do we want?

2010-07-02 Thread Andy Davidson
On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:59, William Norton wrote: > 1) We started seeing folks having suite parties, [...] > 2) We started seeing people quietly passing out logo'd and funny t-shirts, [...] > 4) tours of data centers that don't sponsor NANOG but are local (we geeks > like these things), These are