Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 Thread Christian O'Flaherty
> It would seem likely when the participation is heaviliy biased towards > equipment vendors and software tooling that the participants would be more > representative of where the concentration of the development sideo of that > work occurs. This is true, but this is also something where active pa

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 Thread Christian O'Flaherty
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 5/28/13 6:20 AM, Christian O'Flaherty wrote: >> Probably, this lack of social interaction in our region is one of >> the main reasons for low participation. Most of latin american >> IETFers are currently liv

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 Thread Christian O'Flaherty
> > The IETF has a big problem, IMHO, in that effective participation really does > currently seem to require meeting attendance. There's a reason > that nomcom members have to show up—if they didn't, they wouldn't be part of > the actual culture of IETF, because so much IETF culture is > bound

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-27 Thread Christian O'Flaherty
Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > I'm not quite sure the currency exchange issues are key for this discussion. > FWIW, I think you can still budget in Euros for the Berlin meeting, > but I'm only 97% sure :-) > > Anyway, I wanted to highlight that, as has been pointed out