- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:53:38 +0200
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, Joe Hildebrand <JHildebrand@jabber.com>
Lisa Dusseault wrote: > The dates of IETF weeks are known well in advance, and we always > schedule a WebDAV WG meeting. The exact day of the meeting cannot be > known until the entire agenda is fixed, so unfortunately there's not > much Joe and I can do to make the exact day for WebDAV known in advance. > > What a lot of us do is block off the entire week long in advance, > possibly even buying tickets in advance. Then we attend the whole > meeting, scheduling side talks, seeing what related working groups are > doing, and often scheduling customer meetings into the week too (for > those of us who have customers). Others plan ahead and then buy tickets > only a couple weeks in advance so they can be there only for the most > crucial days. Assuming that all (or even a majority of the) working group members will have the necessary support from their management to travel to IETF meetings for three weeks per year is simply unrealistic. So *if* it is a goal to get more of the active working group members to attend meetings, things need to become a bit easier for them (things that come to mind is *not* having a meeting three times per year, agenda and dates being known as much in advance as possible, and so on). Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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