This would need to be integrated with the general registration mechanism
to have any chance of being representative. Or you can hand out yellow
badges to those who filled out the form. If the room is full, the white
badges get kicked out....
Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>
> At 13:30 13/12/2000 -0800, Lane Patterson wrote:
> >This has likely been proposed previously, but I would like to
> >raise the topic of mapping adequate conf rooms to WGs and BOFs.
> >I have now attended 3 WGs that had to turn away attendees due
> >to extreme lack of space, and several others that had plenty of
> >extra unutilized space.
> >
> >Would the IETF organizers consider requesting WG/BOF attendance
> >plans upon registration? Are there other suggestions for
> >improvement in this process?
>
> The biggest improvement would be if people could sign up for the meetings 2
> years in advance, so that we could book big enough meeting facilities.
>
> The assignment to rooms is based on the WG/BOF chairs' estimates of
> attendance. Getting better estimates would help - but this would have to be
> done entirely automagically if it were to help the (small) secretariat
> staff, and be filled in correctly.
>
> Anyone volunteering to write/host the data entry pieces of this, so that we
> can test it at a forthcoming IETF?
>
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