[governance] number of workshops and forums

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi, open slots are a feature. They meant for people to organize meetings 
spontaneously.
Regarding poorly organized or attended workshops, I would be interested 
to hear how we could prevent that. My impression is that most people 
would in the meantime welcome a lower number of workshops. Assuming that 
the number of applications for workshops won't go down, this would mean 
that the selection criteria would have to be tightened. Fewer workshops 
could also conflict with the principle guiding the preparation of Athens 
and Rio, namely that if we have the space, we should not deny any 
workshop proposals. I would be interested in getting some feedback from 
attendees on how they see this issue.
Tomorrow morning there will be a taking stock session. This could be one 
of the issues to be discussed there.
jeanette

Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> Ian Peter ha scritto:
>> Overall a disappointing involvement of CS and I wonder why this is so. 
>> Is European parliament irrelevant or are we just disorganized?
> 
> I think we're just too busy, I strongly wanted to attend but I was 
> caught in the aftermath of our workshop.
> In general, perhaps there are too many things going on at the same time? 
>  For example, the schedule does not take into account the fact that 
> people have to meet before workshops to prepare them, prepare reports 
> after them, etc... and then also move back and forth from hotels that 
> are 30-45 mins away, which doesn't encourage to be here from 8:30 to 
> 19:30. Since the IGF started, I barely managed to pop into a few 
> workshops for 15 minutes each, nothing more.
> I'm possibly busier than usual and maybe there's nothing that can be 
> done about this, but each of us should take note of possible suggestions 
> for next year: I'm starting to note (or get reports of) several open 
> slots and poorly organized / poorly attended workshops, and perhaps 
> there could be less of them, but with a higher attendance and significance.
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