On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Donald Neal wrote:

If not stopped, I'll proceed on the assumption that we can plan to do something without seeking a unifying reason for it. However, if people who would attend in the right circumstances do have goals they think we should be aiming to achieve, now's the time to speak up.

I think you need to have some goal here. I'd be interested in this meeting IFF it's technical - if we get marketing and sales types there I won't be nearly as interested (possibly one of the understatements of 2002). Perhaps it would be useful to revisit out terms of reference - see below. I'm sure Donald will be keeping these points in mind but I'd like others to consider them too. I'd suggest that some form of program committee need to be consituted - this event need to be content driven not event driven. Let's think about organising the event when we have something that looks like a program that people want to see/hear. The program committee could be the list if we want to keep the process informal for now. If someone thinks they have something that people might want to hear about post a short description and see who shows some interest. The beer item on the proposed agenda will take of itself once we have the rest of the schedule sorted - it goes at the end of the formal proceedings. --- NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1. Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 6. Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 7. Postings of a political, philosophical or legal nature are discouraged. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog