[lir-wg] New question

At 16:35 05/12/2002 +0000, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> > For people that attend both the RIPE Meeting and RIPE NCC AGM, this
> > removes one trip per year, at the cost of a slightly longer stay in
> > Amsterdam.  For people that attend only one or the other, this does not
> > change their flight or registration requirements.
>
>And therefore as a consequence puts more people near the AGM so that
>participation by members is wider... hooray. Win/win.

Exactly. I say we should at least try it. If only 10 members turn up to the 
AGM when it is held on the Friday after the RIPE meeting, then we can say 
"ooops, we were wrong". But as ARIN found out last month with NANOG, 
co-locating meetings really does help the attendance. And everyone wins. :-)

May I propose to the board (who hopefully are all on this mailing list) 
that they suggest combining the RIPE meeting with the RIPE NCC AGM at the 
September 2003 event? That only means moving the AGM date forward by a 
month, so hopefully doesn't involve the NCC Secretariat in too much more 
stress in preparing for the AGM. (And which might make the format of 
Monday: EOF, Tuesday/Wednesday: WG meetings, Thursday: Open Meeting, 
Friday: NCC AGM?)

philip
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