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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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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