Re: **Information on New Attendees and NomCom Eligibility** (fwd)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On mandag, april 21, 2003 13:15:26 -0400 Russ Housley 
<housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:

> I suspect that the high percentage of new attendees in San Francisco
> comes from two factors.  First, the number of repeats was probably down
> due to the economy and global situation.  Second, the number of new
> attendees was probably up since the meeting was held so close to Silicon
> Valley.  As I recall, when we met in San Jose, we had a lot of new
> attendees as well.
warning: it's easy to misread the list, because the last number is NOT 
about the newbies - it's about the nomcom-eligible participants.

the newbie count alone:

> > IETF-52: 433 new attendees out of 1660 total attendees - 26% - SLC
> >
> > IETF-53: 358 new attendees out of 1614 total attendees - 22% - 
Minneapolis
> > IETF-54: 836 new attendees out of 1829 total attendees - 45% - Yokohama
> >
> > IETF-55: 406 new attendees out of 1530 total attendees - 26% - Atlanta
> >
> > IETF-56: 481 new attendees out of 1632 total attendees  - 29% - San Fran
still running at more than 1/4 newbies.