Good Morning from IETF-Weird!

With the IETF WEIRD Working Group now officially chartered and Oslo fast
approaching, who's up for some discussion?

The WEIRD working group will develop a set of web pages about the IETF. Our
Area Director, April Marine, has put up a placeholder for its pages at
http://usv.ietf.org/weird/. The target audience for these pages is people
new to the IETF and other Internet generalists.

Content within the scope of the group includes: current IETF WG and BOF
activities, dependencies and interrelationships among specific IETF WG and
BOF activities, BOF historical information, IAB / IESG / Secretariat issues
and topics of interest and their impact.

I'd like the group to make some incremental improvements to the WEIRD web
site before Oslo. This is mainly an exercise for us, to get us organized,
but I hope that the results will help others as well. Here's what I'm
thinking...your thoughts, alternatives, and contributions are welcome!

1) Name That Site - The working group is named WEIRD, but our web page
doesn't have to be called that. Shout out some URLs (for now, starting with
usv.ietf.org) that you think would make sense and appeal to the target
audience.

2) Design Our Front Page - No offense April, what we have is pretty
dry...How about some simple mock-ups for the page layout? I'm not asking for
a lot of tinsel and chrome, just something lively that makes good use of the
web's capabilities without losing coherence if someone views it text-only.

3) Content, Content, Content. You see above a description of what's in
scope. How about some specific proposals for what our very first report or
presentation should cover? Something we could write up within the next 2-3
weeks and get onto the pages, that would help someone attending Oslo better
understand what's going on in specific IETF areas or working groups.


Regards,

Chris Burke