Hi, On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:42:50PM +0200, Erik Bais wrote:
The RIPE meetings are mostly taped and broadcasted online already ... The benefit of having the RIPE meetings in person is that people actually have a better interaction than with a webinar.
Indeed. In fact, I'd like to see more of the membership/community encouraged to come to RIPE meetings because, as much as has changed, "The Internet" is still a cooperative effort on the IP layer. I'd think though, that, if the cost of holding meetings in faraway places is more than inconsiderable, it may be worth thinking about holding all of them in Amsterdam - the NCC is there and it is easily reached from most places. What worries me more about the continuing budget increases, is that money is spent on an ever increasing range of activities that, strictly speaking, are not relevant to the RIR function. I will probably comment more on that once I've actually seen the proposed budget 2012. In general, given that probably every member is feeling the current economic crisis and the NCC budget is rising steadily as if nothing had happened, something will have to give eventually... rgds, Sascha Luck