Subject: Re: [Mentoring-coordinators] [edu-team] IETF 98 Tutorials & Meeting Registration System

From: Karen O'Donoghue <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 07:35:48 +0000

I think this is a good idea. It causes more confusion and doesn’t provide any useful data for meeting planning. 

Karen

> On Nov 12, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Alexa Morris <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> We are planning to open registration for IETF 98 during the week of November 21. Normally, we include a list of Sunday tutorials in the registration form. However, I would like to ask if there is any objection to experimenting with the removal of the tutorials from the registration form, for a couple of reasons:
> 
> - The Secretariat does not actually use this data to allocate rooms at the venue, as it’s not reliable enough…plus we generally have a good sense of which rooms we want to use for the tutorials even without this data.  
> - This far out from the next meeting, the EDU directorate is frequently unsure which tutorials make the most sense to deliver. Sometimes decisions are made in a hurry, just to make the deadline of registration’s opening. This seems like the tail wagging the dog, and separating tutorial planning from opening of registration will allow the EDU directorate to make the decision with greater flexibility, and perhaps be more responsive to changing needs. 
> 
> Once the EDU directorate decides which tutorials make the most sense to deliver in Chicago for IETF 98, the Secretariat can send out a notice to the community so that people are notified (and, of course, the tutorials will always appear on the meeting agenda). 
> 
> Comments? Concerns?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexa
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> edu-team mailing list
> [email-masked]
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-team