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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:09:40PM -0800, William B. Norton wrote: > On 12/4/06, Martin Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > >Focusing on expense is a short term way to manage a loss in the > >front end, the bottom line. It would be useful to talk about > >solutions that drive attendance, IMHO. > > I agree and would like to see if we can brainstorm some ideas that > might spur discussions, other ideas, etc. > > 1) Provide a mechanism for vendors to send to NANOG a box of schwag > (Tshirts, USB memsticks, USB disks loaded with freeware, product > literature, whatever). This might provide a subtle enticement to get a > NANOG vendor kit. I know some people purposely bring a bag with too > few clothes with the expectation of getting tshirts to wear on the way > home. since you can't register w/o specifying a shirt size, this is not an unreasonable assumption. > > 2) Identify/recruit Adhoc Working Groups that may be for small public > groups, and provide sign-outable breakout rooms for these meetings. > This would leverage the "we are all in the same place at the same > time" aspect of NANOG, and facilitate additional value for the > attendees that attend these meetings. Their alternative might be going > out to dinner, which may or may not work as well. I guess the addition > here as compared with previous break out rooms is to assign a schedule > (time and a meeting name, a facilitator) to allocated meetings and > descriptions of the meeting. for me, NANOG is mostly irrelevent to me, I'm not a "Tier-X" ISP, and my networking needs only tangentially involve the 2x32 routes, MPLS/circuit switching @ 100Gb, or the like. So if I come to NANOG, its to (borrowing from friend Gibbard) get a new/fresh perspective on topics that are interesting to me. > > >I would hope that there is plan in place to address this for the > >Toronto meeting. --bill
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