Subject: Favor request: please help with Quick Connections

From: Karen O'Donoghue <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:49:41 +0000

Folks,

We have a big favor to ask. We desperately need more experienced IETFers to participate in the virtual Newcomer’s Quick Connections. It is in just under 12 hours at: 
23 July at 15:00 UTC (8:00 PST, 11:00 EST, 17:00 CET, 00:00 JST).

Please email me ([email-masked]) if you are willing to participate so that I can pre-allocate experienced IETFers to specific tables. (long tragic story about signups gone awry to explain why I'm doing this now...) We really only need about 7 or 8 people to volunteer. You don't want to miss this opportunity! 

We will use Gather.town [1] and the link to join the IETF 108 Online Gather space is https://ietf.gather.town/z6N2SDxHebMdDAfo/IETF-108  The secretariat has prepared some guidelines [2] for how to use Gather, and we encourage you to review them prior to joining. 

We suggest you arrive a bit early to test this out, as the interface takes a bit of getting used to get used to. You can use the arrow keys to move to the “newcomers lounge” on the map by going forward and then to the north west (follow the floor markings).

The sessions will work like normal with a single guide at a numbered table.  We will ask new participants to rotate to new tables every 15 minutes by advertising the switch time in the “room chat” on the right hand side. This will be on the 15 minute marks (:15 :30 :45), so watch your clock please and start wrapping up a minute early or so.

<Please don’t make me beg… :-)  >

Thanks,
Karen (for the EDU/Mentoring team)

[1] https://gather.town/
[2] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/108-gather-participant-guidelines.pdf