Yoav, On Aug 7, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Yoav Nir wrote:
> Asia is big. Some parts of Asia (the middle east and the eastern parts of > Russia) are closer to Europe than to China, Japan or Korea, at least as far > as traveling goes. > > But I think that only adds up to about 15-20 attendees, so it's still in the > noise. > > I also wonder if the data we have is about countries of citizenship, or where > people actually work. A lot of people with Indian or Chinese passports work > in Silicon valley and are actually more comfortable with a meeting in north > America than in Asia. I doubled checked. The continent data is based on the address of the person registering , not their citizenship. Bob > > On Aug 8, 2010, at 3:04 AM, Michael StJohns wrote: > >> >> Hmm... folding Australia into Asia, Africa into Europe and S America into N >> America (for discussion purposes only) that's roughly >> >> 1/1/1.7 as a ratio. (Asia/Europe/NA). Or 4/4/7. >> >> It will be interesting to see what the other runs of the data show. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> At 07:49 PM 8/7/2010, Donald Eastlake wrote: >>> Assuming the very simple model that attendance consists of a fixed number >>> of constant attendees from each continent plus a "continentally local" >>> variable number that only show up when the IETF meets on their continent >>> and using the very limited data provided, using a rough least squares fit I >>> get the following: >>> >>> Constant Attendees >>> Africa 6 >>> Asia 236 >>> Europe 254 >>> N.America 409 >>> Australia 14 >>> S.America 8 >>> >>> Continentally Local Attendees >>> Asia 333 >>> Europe 173 >>> N.America 232 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Donald >>> ================== >>> Donald E. Eastlake 3rd >>> 155 Beaver Street >>> Milford, MA 01757 USA >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Bob Hinden <[email protected]> wrote: >>> During my IAOC chair plenary talk at IETF78 (slides are in the proceedings) >>> I asked a question about continuing the current meeting policy (3 in North >>> America, 2 in Europe, 1 in Asia in two year period (3-2-1) ) or changing to >>> a 1-1-1 policy based on current meeting attendance. The talk included a >>> graph of attendance by continent for IETF72-IETF78. I was asked to provide >>> this data to the community. >>> >>> It is attached. It includes the raw data and a new graph that shows >>> attendance by percentage. It appears to me that a 1-1-1 meeting policy is >>> justified by current overall IETF meeting attendance. >>> >>> Your comments are appreciated. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ietf mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ietf mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> >> <ATT00001..txt> > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
