[86436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Opinions wanted re NANOG meeting terminal rooms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Nov 4 10:18:23 2005
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:17:48 -0500
To: nanog-futures@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
[bcc'd to nanog@nanog.org]
Call for Community Participation
The NANOG Steering Committee is interested in hearing feedback from
the community about the following topic. Private comments may be sent
to steering@nanog.org. Public discussion is encouraged, and should
take place on the nanog-futures mailing list.
For information about subscription to the nanog-futures mailing list,
see <http://www.nanog.org/email.html>.
NANOG Meeting Terminal Rooms
Hotel logistics at NANOG meetings have included a terminal room for
many years. However, it has been observed that these days most
attendees make no use of the terminals provided in that room (most
people bring laptops with them to the meeting).
In the recent LA meeting, Equinix transformed the terminal room into
a Office Space-themed club house, complete with sofas, red swingline
staplers and a jump-to-conclusions mat [1].
Eliminating the terminals from the terminal room would save money,
and could free up the room for some other purpose.
The NANOG Steering Committee is interested in hearing the opinions of
the community on this topic. For example:
1. Should a terminal room be provided at all?
2. If there is no requirement for a terminal room at a future
meeting, but the space for a terminal room is still available, what
should the room be used for?
Please follow-up to the nanog-futures mailing list <http://
www.nanog.org/email.html> or send private commentary to the NANOG
Steering Committee at <steering@nanog.org>.
Joe Abley
(for the NANOG SC)
[1] <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/> (as if anybody here needs
this)
