On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Thomas Nadeau
<tnadeau(_at_)lucidvision(_dot_)com>wrote:
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.
As jabber scribe, I view part of my responsibility as relaying questions
asked on jabber (if no one else is doing so). For groups that have
secretaries, I suggest that that be part of the secretary's
responsibilities.
Regards
Marshall
--Tom
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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