Education (EDU) BOF

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Education (EDU) BOF

• IETF 57 Vienna, Austria
• Margaret Wasserman
• mrw_at_windriver.com

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Purposes of this BOF

• Give the community visibility into our current
  educational activities
• Get feedback on our ideas to enhance and expand
  IETF educational activities
• Reach consensus on how these activities should be
  organized and run

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Scope of this Discussion

• Internal education for IETF participants
• Including newcomers, editors, WG chairs, etc.
• Focus on process and role education
• Help people come-up-to-speed quickly and succeed
  in their roles and responsibilities
• Includes technical training required to succeed
  in each role, such as security training
• NOT outward-facing education/tutorials
• NOT WG-specific training

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EDU BOF Agenda

• Intro and Agenda Bashing Margaret (5 min)
• Review Existing Programs and Resources Margaret
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Participant Education
• Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min)
• Security Tutorial Radia Perlman (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Editor Education Avri Doria
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education Margaret
  (10 min)
• Organization Strawman Margaret (10 min)
• Open Discussion (30 min)
• Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

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Current Educational Activities

• Formal training classes
• Participants
• Newcomer's training
• Security tutorial
• Occasional plenary presentations
• Working Group Chairs
• Introductory training
• Topical training sessions

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Current Educational Activities

• Web Resources
• Overview web page
• WG chairs web page
• Published Documents
• "Tao of the IETF"

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Education Pointers

• 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/plena
  ry-3/index.html
• http//www.ietf.org/proceedings/02mar/slides/plena
  ry-3/index.html

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Current Organization

• Training resources have grown from different
  sources
• IESG, secretariat, grass roots
• Informal group has started loosely coordinating
  these activities
• No web presence, mailing list, etc.
• Minimal community visibility and input

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How can you help?

• Let us know what type of help you need
• Your current educational needs
• Things that would have helped you earlier
• Volunteer
• For education team
• To teach topical sessions
• To help us develop materials, websites, etc.

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EDU BOF Agenda

• Intro and Agenda Bashing Margaret (5 min)
• Review Existing Programs and Resources Margaret
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Participant Education
• Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min)
• Security Tutorial Radia Perlman (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Editor Education Avri Doria
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education Margaret
  (10 min)
• Organization Strawman Margaret (10 min)
• Open Discussion (30 min)
• Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

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Participant Education Plans/Ideas

• Margaret Wasserman
• mrw_at_windriver.com

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Newcomer's Session

• Newcomer's session held Sunday afternoon at every
  IETF
• Provides brief introduction to processes and
  culture of the IETF
• Historically developed and taught by the
  secretariat, now by Scott Bradner

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Ideas for Participant Education

• Regular training sessions for participants
• On process, culture, roles, timely topics or
  technical issues with wide impact
• During plenaries or brown-bag lunches?
• Mentoring program
• Formal or more informal
• Educational resources for non-North American
  participants

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What do you think?

• Feedback on newcomer's training
• Ideas for participant education moving forward

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EDU BOF Agenda

• Intro and Agenda Bashing Margaret (5 min)
• Review Existing Programs and Resources Margaret
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Participant Education
• Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min)
• Security Tutorial Radia Perlman (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Editor Education Avri Doria
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education Margaret
  (10 min)
• Organization Strawman Margaret (10 min)
• Open Discussion (30 min)
• Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

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EDU BOF Agenda

• Intro and Agenda Bashing Margaret (5 min)
• Review Existing Programs and Resources Margaret
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Participant Education
• Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min)
• Security Tutorial Radia Perlman (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Editor Education Avri Doria
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education Margaret
  (10 min)
• Organization Strawman Margaret (10 min)
• Open Discussion (30 min)
• Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

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WG Chairs Education Plans/Ideas

• Margaret Wasserman
• mrw_at_windriver.com

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Current WG Chair Education

• Formal training sessions
• Introductory training, repeated each IETF
• Topical sessions
• Both held at WG chairs training lunches
• WG Chairs Web Site

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Previous Discussions

• Group of WG chairs and IESG members met in SF to
  discuss WG chairs education
• Feedback on current introductory training
• Has been incorporated into latest materials
• Many other suggestions included here
• Identified need for editors training, as well
• Notes can be found athttp//www.psg.com/mrw/WGC
  hairs_Training_Notes_Mar03.txt

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Ideas for WG Chairs Education

• Training sessions on timely topics
• Open discussion sessions
• WG Chairs FAQ
• WG Chairs mentoring program
• Often covered by having two chair(s), including
  one with experience

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EDU BOF Agenda

• Intro and Agenda Bashing Margaret (5 min)
• Review Existing Programs and Resources Margaret
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Participant Education
• Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min)
• Security Tutorial Radia Perlman (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for Editor Education Avri Doria
  (10 min)
• Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education Margaret
  (10 min)
• Organization Strawman Margaret (10 min)
• Open Discussion (30 min)
• Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

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Organization of the EDU Effort

• Margaret Wasserman
• mrw_at_windriver.com

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Scope of the Effort

• Internal education for IETF participants
• Including newcomers, editors, WG chairs, etc.
• Focusing on process and role education
• Help people come-up-to-speed quickly and succeed
  in their roles and responsibilities
• Includes technical training required to succeed
  in each role

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Nature of the Effort

• Web pages and web-based educational resources
• Regular classes, taught on an ongoing basis
• One-time sessions for ongoing participants
• Programs to help people come up-to-speed quickly
  and be successful in their roles

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Not quite like an IETF WG

• Don't produce standards or technical docs
• "Customers" are internal, not external
• Materials and resources are not permanent
• Requires logistical coordination and tactical
  planning for each IETF meeting
• Need to update existing material and develop new
  material for each IETF

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But, we do need

• Community visibility
• Web presence, open mailing list archives,
  periodic open meetings?
• Community feedback
• Quality/relevance feedback from participants
• Program/priority feedback from community
• Support/mandate from the community
• To coordinate/manage these efforts

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Organization Strawman

• Form an education team to run this effort
• General AD appoints a leader
• Leader and AD choose team from volunteers,
  refresh and expand the team as needed
• Team membership publicly known

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Community Visibility Feedback

• IETF web page for educational activities
• Public discussion mailing list
• Education team archives publicly available
• Occasional (yearly?) open meetings at IETF

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Comments or Questions?
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Next Steps

• Do we have agreement on how this effort should be
  organized going forward?
• What are the top two or three priorities for this
  effort?