Hi!
However, in my personal case, there's also the fact that WBM has been evolving in a direction that I don't feel comfortable with (less technical content, more self- promotion, tolerance for bomb-makers, etc.)
Self-promotion of good ideas is not necessary bad. And others are there to squash the bad ideas. ;-)
But for technical content: I think you could easily volunteer to lead few round tables on the topic of protocol design. For example, this discussion we are now having on the mailing list about different aspects of routing protocols: oh, how I would love to have them in live, with everybody from all protocols together, sitting and explaining their approaches, their arguments and experiences why they are doing something in the way they are doing: is this theoretical argument, or is it simply a practical observation, can we find a theoretical reasoning behind it, can we maybe invalidate some theoretical argument with a practical (repeatable) experiment?
Because I think I am not the only one who does not know much about how other protocols are doing things, what were the reasons they have chosen the given approach, ... And it would really help understanding each other, and maybe, maybe, we could in some years even agree on a common routing protocol. ;-)
This would also be interesting for non-technical and new people, because they would be able to listen and understand how things work.
But because Juliusz is afraid to come, I can volunteer to moderate (and mediate) such tables if others prepare me a list of topics to discuss.
Mitar