Ahem… slides are linked… you must click on the talk title under the “Topic” column of the agenda.
Cheers, Valerie Valerie Wittkop - NANOG Program Director 305 E. Eisenhower Pkwy, Suite 100, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Tel: +1 866 902 1336, ext 103 > On Feb 10, 2021, at 12:59 PM, Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > > > It was mentioned in the chat this morning that > there was no link to slides or anything on the agenda > for the community meeting that happened this morning, > so I offered to share the notes I was jotting down during > the meeting, to give an idea of what was covered for those > in timelines not as friendly to the meeting time, or to those > with conflicts. ^_^; > > Thanks so much to the staff, Elizabeth, Steve, and Ed > for the great presentations this morning! > > Matt > > > > 2021.02.10 NANOG81 community meeting > > Speaker Edward McNair, NANOG > Steve Feldman, ViacomCBS > Elizabeth Culley, Comcast > > NOTES: > Michael Voity kicks off the meeting at 0901 hours Pacific time > to go over the agenda for the day. > > special announcements: > fill out surveys! The PC reads all of them! > And if you're a lucky winner, you'll get a > $100 gift card! > > Looking for presentation proposals for NANOG82! > > check out sponsors at virtual expo both; > sponsors have stepped up to the challenge > with interesting offerings. > > first talk today is hosted by edward mcnair, > with Elizabeth Culley and Steve Feldman. > > Ed Mcnair has been with nanog since 2005, and > has been ED since 2018; > > Steve has been contributing to nanog since its > inception since 1994, and has been involved with > PC for the last 20 years. > > Elizabeth Culley is peering coordinator with > comcast, and is completing her first year on > the PC; this is her first time presenting to > NANOG. > > welcome edward, steve and elizabeth, it's > great to have you here. > > Edward takes a few moments to give some updates > on the organization; > strategic plan narrowed to 3 areas; > education, > meeting experience, > online collaboration, > > another piece built out is the strategic > timeline; > encompasses from NANOG73 to NANOG 85. > purpose is to see what we are aiming to > achieve and what we will put forward. > we always like to hear your comments, > there is a feedback button that goes to > NANOG staff, and he reads them all. > > Take a moment to honor the nanog staff; > counting himself, there are 6.5 staff > members, as Claudia works with them > halftime. > Claudia, Leigh, Valerie, Shawn, Darrieux (Dee), and Brandi > all work very hard to ensure that we can have > a quality program. > > Our 2020 annual report will be coming out > soon; to give a linear record of what we've > accompished over the course of 2020; > > we'll do polls at the end of the section; > > log into the polls at pollEV.com/nanog > > Over to Steve feldman; > at end of every NANOG, there is a Program commitee > get together; after SF, decided to have retreat in 2020; > planned to do it in Boston or Seattle; but then > things changed, and they couldn't get together in person; > so they had a virtual retreat, 2 days, dec 16 2020, > and jan 13 2021 to go over various items. > > some of the items covered: > PC structure > new member onboarding > PC handbook update > mentorship > leadership > review roles, responsibliities > need to document them better > subcommittees > are we optiimizing our effort? > some don't seem to do much. > will add some new ones. > diversity of skills and perspectives > need to get people who have different > industry perspectives. > > other topics at virutal retreat > meeting format > how to do hybrid meetings > we optimize time for training and tutorial > we focus on human interaction; need to accomodate people > in different timezones. > talk solicitation and selection > attracting new speakers > expanding the audience > standardize voting > content review > PC's strategic vision. > > Liz, chairing our data analysis effort; > for past 20 years, we've been building a > repository of tracks, tutorials, keynote speeches, > lightning talks; > we have a long history of hosting the voices of > those building the internet. > what comes up in NANOG is often in the leading edge > of technology trends; > this effort will be to mine the repository, > to help us keep up with the onslaught of demand. > > cataloging NANOG; > we are recording the details of every presentation, > tutoria and keynote; > tagging each record with relevant metadata > provide intuitive web page of popular topics > porovide data to potential speakers on history of any topic > which topics are asked for most often > which videos are most viewed. > > use surveys and data on view counts to project > topics that will be of most interest. > > looking at last 5 years of NANOG data; > how many times this topic > 44 topics on DNS > 40 requests for automation, but 26 talks on automation > Geoff Huston comes up a lot > look at how many times talks are viewed on youtube; > 27K views of 44 DNS talks on youtube; > 26 automation videos got 77K views. > > A lot of people would say they're experts in a field; > how can they talk about their job when it's 100% > proprietary, and they can't talk about their day > job; > take a look at the request counts, how many presentations > we get, so even doing a 101 intro class is a great way to > get your feet wet. > > 66% of presentations are on top 20 subjects. > 115 categoreis in presentations and requests match > the survey requests. > > if we watched all the talks and presentations, 8 hours > a day, it woud take 8 weeks to watch the all > 550 prsentations, 357 speakers, 218 organizations. > 90% of speakers present 1 or 2 times. > > looking forward; want to give huge thanks to > Jeff Bartig, Anna Valsami, and Valerie Wittkop > for doing the work to move it forwrd; > and thank you to PC for creating the new data > analysis committee, and providing the sunlight > and support to make this a reality. > we have 1300 recorded and tagged; > we expect 2100 items; easy part is done, now we're > getting into the hard part. > Jeff Bartig wrote scripts to download from youtube; > there's a lot of stuff in agendas that have to be gone > through one at a time. > in midst of the project; would love to hear from you; > what else would you like to see? > > now, for polls--what topic would you like to see? > and you can always put feedback in the web feedback > form. > Seems that Geoff Huston, IPv6, Automation, Cloud, > Virtualization are hot topics! > > are you planning to attend minnapolis nanog82 in > person? > most are undecided or will attend virtually. > > most seem to lean to attending virtually. > > likewise for toronto, nanog83 > > it looks like most people are waiting for vaccines to > be available before they will come. So far, most > have not yet taken the vaccine, but also most are > planning to take the vaccine once they are able to. > > Over to you, Michael; > > Thank you to Edward, Steve and Elizabeth for their time. > > Network Automation treasure hunt without a map is up next. > >
