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Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-24 07:50:18

On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:



On 10/24/2011 4:09 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
It's really not that big a deal.  Make sure that audio is working,
that there's a Jabber scribe/Jabber room watcher
...
I have a concrete suggestion for WG chairs: don't ask for a "Jabber
scribe" (which makes it sound as if the hapless volunteer needs to type
everything that's said into the chatroom) but instead ask for someone to
relay comments from the chatroom to the mic.


Basic question:  what has been the claimed purpose for doing jabber scribing?

I thought it was a means of produce raw minutes.  A side -- and sometimes 
extremely valuable -- benefit is as a relatively real-time alternative source 
of information about what is being spoken; this can be quite helpful for 
participants who are not native English speakers.

If neither of these purposes are worth the effort, then your suggestion 
sounds dandy.  If either is sufficiently valuable, then my question is why 
your groups haven't needed them.  (I'm expecting the answer to be that your 
groups didn't feel the need; so my real question is why not?)

        The problem with Jabber is that it has become an apparently replacement 
for audio/video conversation/Q&A at WG meetings for remote participants.   I 
find the jabber feed to be relatively useless at meetings for this purpose as 
the chairs do not always notice questions. Using something like WebEx is far 
more useful, and I'd suggest making it mandatory for all WG meetings in the 
near future to better facilitate remote participants.

        --Tom



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