2022.10.19 NANOG86 community meeting MODERATORS: Cat Gurinsky, Ed McNair NOTES: Cat reminds people to identify themselves when coming to the microphone, and the slide deck is posted in the agenda. Over to Ed to present the slides. Ed welcomes everyone back to the first meeting that really feels like a traditional meeting again. It was a slow march to come back, and thank you all for coming back together again with us! Development updates: Greg Newman joins as full-time employee; he has been helping us working for a third party on our development for the past three years, and now he's coming on board. He does an incredible job communicating with the team, and has been instrumental in reimagining our program tools. 2022 development projects migrate membeship and donations to stripe iprove test coverage new forms for talk submissions cluster rebuild upgrade stripe to payment intents appointment tool beta dozens of bug fixes and tweaks PCTool v2 Ed demos the new appointment tool; first, we reimagined our registration system; then we came up a with a new tool for connecting with other attendees; when you register, you can make yourself available for appointments. When you click on the little symbol, you can schedule a meeting with people; it sends you an email with the invite, you can adjust the times for meetings, and chat back and forth with attendees to lock it in; You can view the calendar view as well. 2023 development projects update site navigation and UI, and staff administration tools doing some UI refreshes update the registration system sponsor tool update, saving staff time badge printing? appointment tool v1 will be released updates to the virtual platform, ability to communicate 1 on 1 add meeting room/table assignments into meeting tool interactive reporting tools, add feedback enable NOGs to use our event tools. looking for people to help support us! Outreach things we've done in past few months; we have an outreach group to expand nanog beyond just the meetings. NANOG U: Montgomery, collaboration between NANOG, ICANN, ARIN, and our outreach partners; hosted by the city of montgomery's mayer's office; Over to Cat for the rest. NANOG program Evolution of the PC; added subcommittees: Data analysis sub-committee, started by Liz moderators sub-committee some people have never done public speaking; helps people through, and write the moderator speeches for people so it's no longer ad-hoc broken off sub-committees (no longer under the PC) education outreach improvements to talk submission process assigning of content reviewers earlier in the process, makes sure it's readable, presentable; we help you make a good-looking presentation even if it's not accepted. Evolution of the PC tool much easier to work with tool, filter by category, you can see what stage each talk is in, make sure slides are attached, Agenda builder--just written by greg; used to be in an excel spreadsheet with title and length, with merged cells. Now, using same base as appointment builder to build the agenda; talks are already right size to put into the calendar view. Rolling call for presentations submit now for next several nanogs, up to N89 87, atlanta, GA 88, seattle WA 89, san diego, CA We can even accept talks for future NANOGS, even if it's 2 meetings away; if it's a good talk, it's good even if it's out ahead. Your final slides are due before the conference, N86 and N87 talk submissions N86, 73 submitted talks total 24 accepted talks, +2 lightning talks N87, 12 pending talks, 1 accepted talk tutorals and tracks room back for N87 and onwards some N87 talks were deferred from N86 that weren't going to be ready in time, or people weren't going to be available. we need to accept more talks to fill the tutorials and tracks room, so start submitting, we're looking for 30+ talks. If you wait until last minute, there's less likely to be space for you. Program Committee Volunteers starting in January, members can submit name for consideration, 2 year terms, 2 consecutive terms 14 positions available, 5 to replace term-limited PC members appointments will be made in February. Thank you! QA Luis Lee, Google Fiber; thank you for the talk; got me thinking about tutorials; do you maybe want to do a series of soft skills; how to give a technical presentation to a room this size, or to senior management, what you want to do, (deploy IPv6, for example) as part of our career building. Soft skills are important to put a team together to build things, to get things done. Cat says "please submit it!" If you're ever engaged in toastmasters, or maybe we can get a toastmaster here to tutor us. Ed notes Christina did a public speaking tutorial; he asked if she might be interested in teaching that. Christina comes to the mike; Christina Chu, NTT; she looked into toastmaster; we can't have them here due to policy guidelines they have. We can talk about how this can continue on and evolve. What you mentioned a moment ago about professional skills; on the PC, we talked about professional development; Betty emphasized that we could hire someone to give that kind of tutorial. It will probably still be an option for the program committee to consider, we can hire someone if it's appropriate. Louis Lee, second question; how do we approach memorializing of people in our community who have passed in the past year; there were thoughts of doing a memorial page. If you go to community.nanog.org, we started a page on the discourse, at the bottom, "in memorium", you can submit names of people who have passed, and you can submit names of others who have passed, and add photos, memories, stories. It gets tricky to put them in opening and closing, but we'll have a thread for everyone who has passed from our community. Louis notes that since we're in Hollywood, it might be nice to run through the names; if there are names that appeared since the last meeting, or once a year, have them scroll through the list of names during the breaks, so it gets a bit more attention. Tina Morris, AWS, one housekeeping thing on meeting planning tool, a lot of features have been requested; would be nice to reduce requests if we can see backlog to know what is already in the works. Ed notes we do have it, we just need to make it prominantly visible. Matt Petach asks about the Badge Printing bullet point? In June meeting, we'll have an ipad that you can use to print your own badge to speed up the registration process. Tina notes the badges before were bigger, with names and affiliations much easier to read. Any questions about volunteering? Thank you all, and huge appreciation for all those who do volunteer to make the meetings a success! If you want to make sure it will continue to be a success, please volunteer! Ed wraps up the meeting at 1029 hours Pacific time.