Education BOF (edu) Wednesday, July 16 at 1300-1500 ================================ CHAIR: Margaret Wasserman AGENDA: - Intro and Agenda Bashing (5 min) - Review Existing Programs and Resources (10 min) - Newcomer/Participant Training - WG Chair Training - Other Educational Resources - Plans/Direction for Participant Education (15 min) - Plans/Direction for Editor Education (15 min) - Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education (15 min) - Options for Training Organization/Management (10 min) - Open Discussion (30 min) - Next Steps and Action Items (20 min) FULL DESCRIPTION: This BOF will discuss internal training and development programs and educational resources for IETF participants and leaders. The IETF has been educating IETF participants and leaders for many years, via formal training classes, educational web sites, published materials and formal and informal mentoring programs. Our educational efforts have included training sessions for newcomers, introductory training sessions for new WG chairs, and educational web resources for WG chairs, document editors and other participants. There have also been educational sessions for IETF participants held at some IETF plenary meetings. Over the past year, there has been an increasing awareness of the need for better educational programs and resources for IETF WG chairs, document editors and other participants. A grass-roots effort was initiated to expand the WG Chairs training program to include ongoing education for continuing WG chairs. The Newcomers training, formerly provided by the IETF Secretariat, has been folded in to the WG Chairs training effort. Also, we've discussed the development of training programs or resources for document editors and other IETF participants. As this effort expands beyond the area of WG chairs training, it is increasingly important to have the IETF community involved in this effort -- both to give the community more visibility into these activities, and to receive input and assistance from the wider community in developing our educational programs and resources. In this BOF, we'll discuss the IETF's existing educational programs and resources, and we'll discuss how those programs could be enhanced or expanded in the future. We will also discuss how best to organize and managed our educational programs on an ongoing basis, including a discussion of whether we should form a Working Group to further this effort. At the San Francisco IETF in March 2003, a voluntary session was held for IESG members and WG chairs to discuss training for ongoing WG chairs. The notes from that session can be found at: http://www.psg.com/~mrw/WGChairs_Training_Notes_Mar03.txt BOF attendees should also familiarize themselves with our existing training materials and on-line educational resources. For Newcomers: http://www.ietf.org/newcomer/frame.htm http://www.ietf.org/overview.html For WG Chairs: http://psg.com/~mrw/WGChairs_Training_Mar03.ppt http://www.ietf.org/IESG/wgchairs.html Examples of Participant Training: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/01dec/slides/plenary-3/index.html http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/02mar/slides/plenary-3/index.html MAILING LIST: List: wgchairs-training@ops.ietf.org Subscribe: majordomo@ops.ietf.org Body: "subscribe wgchairs-training" (no quotes) Archive: http://ops.ietf.org/lists/wgchairs-training/