Opinions wanted re NANOG meeting terminal rooms

Fri Nov 4 15:17:48 UTC 2005

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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 at nanog.org. Public discussion is encouraged, and should  
take place on the nanog-futures mailing list.

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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 at nanog.org>.

Joe Abley
(for the NANOG SC)

[1] <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/> (as if anybody here needs  
this)