Thank you for this! On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:00 Matthew Petach <[email protected]> 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. > > > > -- Mehmet +1-424-298-1903
