[ncc-services-wg] NCC staff representation at RIPE meetings

Where it's Amsterdam, I'm wholly in agreement. The marginal cost of additional staff is minimal. 

However, we've had complaints (just vague coffee-break things, nothing formal) about too many RIPE NCC staff at RIPE meetings. As Gert knows, trying to satisfy everyone isn't possible and we try to balance the "keep the staff to a minimum" and "let's have lots of staff there" points of view. If we get the feeling that people want more staff at the meetings then we can ask the NCC to send more staff. It's your organisation, after all.

Nigel 

-----Original Message-----
From: ncc-services-wg-bounces at ripe.net [mailto:ncc-services-wg-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
Sent: 26 February 2013 16:24
To: Daniel Stolpe
Cc: ncc-services-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [ncc-services-wg] NCC staff representation at RIPE meetings

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:16:41PM +0100, Daniel Stolpe wrote:
> Well, my opinion is that RIPE meetings is about the only time to meet 
> the staff in person, which is a good reason to attend. And also, if I 
> have to pay for this number of staff, the RIPE meetings is a chance to 
> actually see them at work. If it "does not look good", then maybe we 
> should consider staff numbers all together.

Strongly seconded.

I do also consider it one of the major benefits of a RIPE meeting to meet RIPE NCC staff in person, and to actually know who I'm talking to, next time I'm in a mail exchange with hostmaster at ripe.net...

Also it helps the NCC staff to get a feeling for "real life" to be able to talk to people over coffee.

Gert Doering
        -- RIPE member since many years
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