On Fri Mar 24 13:03:11 2006, Keith Moore wrote:
sometimes I find remote participation (via audio streaming and
jabber) more effective than actually attending the meeting. I
sometimes am surprised to find that the extra distance makes it
easier for me to see what is relevant. I also think it might be
less distracting to attend a meeting from my own office than to be
in a room full of people who aren't paying attention.
I don't actually have the choice, but I find remote participation
generally okay, for the most part, albeit I have the slight advantage
of starting off my internet experience in telnet BBS systems, so I'm
generally used to the text chat thing, the lag, etc. The audio lag is
more unnerving, in the cases where the Jabber scribe is helpfully
typing in what people are going to say before they say it.
Many thanks to all the jabber scribes in those meetings I virtually
attended, and, just as important, thanks to those physically present
who also monitored and used the Jabber rooms, and thus made me feel
somewhat like an attendee (albeit in the cheap seats) rather than a
"not present".
I'm somewhat hoping that the use of the Jabber server outside the
meetings might be able to take off as a method for more
high-bandwidth discussion, paradoxically leaving more time in the
"real" meetings for the kind of presentations that Keith hates, but
this time having them aimed at cross pollination between groups and
areas.
of course, that doesn't make up for the lack of face time in the
bar - and the ability to work things out in the hallways and
generally just get to know our fellow conspirators personally is a
lot of the reason we need to have these meetings.
Sure, and meeting quite a few people back in Paris was great.
unfortunately, it's hard to get expensed to travel halfway across
the world to drink with other geeks.
"expensed"... Yeah, that'd be good too.
Dave.
--
You see things; and you say "Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
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