So meeting outside GGF is perhaps not necessarily a bad thing if it enables the group to make vibrant progress with a meeting cadence and locations that meet the group's needs. What are the group's needs? Do they need standards or just community? If they primariliy need f2f time to do the necessary coordination, etc., this could be done at other meetings, such as SC, rather than having to make "yet another trip" to GGF. What we do want to keep, however, is a strong connection with the group; where they do come in and collaborate with GGF sessions, etc., from time to time. Does GCE have something against GGF, or is it just that the GGF meeting cadence, etc., does not generally meet their needs? --Craig At 11:59 AM 11/21/2005, Julie Wulf-Knoerzer wrote:
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I note that portals meeting at GGF15 drew about 15 people (in a room that could seat 100,000) The portals workshop at SC05 (on the slightly unattractive friday) drew 60 people and its success I believe is motivating that group to continue outside GGF next year with an SC06 workshop. Portals (GCE) is still alive at GGF but it is not perhaps flourishing in the way we would like.
In general we still are not attracting some of the (research) communities that used to be at GGF.
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