Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-22 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
gt; > Kathleen > > > > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Stewart Bryant > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 6:05 AM > To: Ted Hardie > Cc: IETF > Subject: Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know > > > >

RE: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-22 Thread Moriarty, Kathleen
you, it is basic networking skills and does work in the IETF. Thanks, Kathleen From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Stewart Bryant Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 6:05 AM To: Ted Hardie Cc: IETF Subject: Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-22 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 19/04/2013 19:13, Ted Hardie wrote: As a working group chair, when I stare out at a sea of faces looking for a scribe, the chances of my asking someone I know produces good minutes is much higher than my asking someone whose work I don't know. Think about how this often works in WGs without

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-21 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Excellent post, Ted. I really like your suggestions, and I think these are the types of things we should be doing to more widely leverage the talents of people who are available to participate in the IETF. Margaret On Apr 19, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > Following a number of the

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-21 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/19/2013 1:47 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly select people to be involved in a short online meeting to discuss the draft, rather than revi

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-21 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Hector, Thanks for your input. I add that we/I need to write down these ideas (related to IETF Structure progress and IETF Diversity) into an I-D, because if not they can be forgotten. Restructuring is always an important task for old WGs/bodies. The community changes every day so organisations

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-20 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/20/13 6:12 AM, Hector Santos wrote: > There is much more that can be done, but we are still holding on to a > version of the past that is keeping the IETF behind. Behind what? Melinda

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-20 Thread Hector Santos
On 4/19/2013 2:13 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > ... > There are other methods that may well be better than the two Suresh and I discussed, but I put these forward as a potentially concrete step that may help those struggling with this to understand that the end result of this need not be quotas.

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-20 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Dear Ted, I agree with you totally, hope that your suggestion is considered for progress in our participation (me as newcomer feedback). Our choices in life is all about awareness, I just wanted to add that any individual while *participation* with any body/person in or out IETF, s/he will try to

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Jari Arkko
Ted: Very nice post and good ideas. Thanks. Jari

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Yoav Nir
On Apr 19, 2013, at 10:31 PM, Ted Hardie mailto:ted.i...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Dave Cridland mailto:d...@cridland.net>> wrote: Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is h

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Riccardo Bernardini wrote: > I like your analysis. A comment while I am still "warm" > > > > > The first suggestion is a "Newcomer's directorate". > > > > (snip) > > > > The second suggestion is a simple tool that at WG call time (be it last > call > > or call f

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > Nice post. > > I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner > circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly > select people to be involved in a short online meeting to discuss the >

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
Hi Simon, On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Simon Pietro Romano wrote: > Hi Ted, > > interesting points indeed. I don't really know whether or not the approach > you propose might work in practice, There is certainly a risk there, but I hope we can find ways of increasing the institutional supp

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > Nice post. > > I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner > circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly > select people to be involved in a short online meeting to discuss the draf

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Dave Cridland
Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly select people to be involved in a short online meeting to discuss the draft, rather than review it in isolation. It'd be a different kind

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Simon Pietro Romano
Hi Ted, interesting points indeed. I don't really know whether or not the approach you propose might work in practice, though. My personal experience in the IETF is that it is really hard to gain some 'popularity' among the members of this variegated gallery of characters, especially if you don

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
I like your analysis. A comment while I am still "warm" > > The first suggestion is a "Newcomer's directorate". > > (snip) > > The second suggestion is a simple tool that at WG call time (be it last call > or call for adoption) randomly selects a set number of participants from the > mailing list

Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
Following a number of the threads on diversity and, in particular, on whether the effort to get a better demographic view of participation will lead to quotas, I have been increasingly uncomfortable with some of the arguments which appear to have some presumptions about how diversity and meritocrac