On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Janet P Gunn <jgunn6(_at_)csc(_dot_)com> wrote:
As someone who has done it both ways (in person and remotely) I have a
couple of comments.
Having the slides available early is an advantage to BOTH in-person and
remote participants.
As a remote participant I "need" the slides available about 30 min before
the session.
As a participant (in-person or remote) it is VERY helpful to have the slides
available much earlier.
So I do not think "how many remote participants for this session" is a
useful parameter for "how important is it to get the slides out early"
Agreed. What I meant was it strengthens the case to make slides
available before hand.
On the other hand, I DO think that the number of remote participants for a
particular session IS a useful parameter for "how important is it to have an
active jabber scribe" and "how important is it to make sure the audio
streaming is working well."
Agreed. Again, it strengthens the case to get it done right. This
part has been working well though.
As a remote participant the list of "working groups I am interested in" is
different from the list of "working groups I plan to participate in
remotely".
There is a SMALL list of working groups I am willing to get up at 2:30 AM
(my time) to participate in (otherwise I MIGHT look at the slides and read
the minutes when they come out)
There is a much LARGER list of working groups I will participate in
remotely if they are in (my time) "normal working hours".
Agreed. there are a couple of nuances here. There is a list of groups
I would wake up in the middle of the night so that I can follow the
discussion realtime. The other is a list of groups for which I would
like to have meetecho recording so that I can follow more closely
later.
There is nothing you can do about this a priori, but if the records show
that, for instance - whenever IETF is in North America, WG abc consistently
has a large number of remote participants from Europe, and WG xyz
consistently has a large number of remote participants from Asia - that
could be factored into the agenda scheduling process.
Yes exactly. Great point. I forgot to mention this. Right now we
cannot see patterns as we do not have enough data. Just moving around
the WG scheduling can help a lot more people participate.
In-person participants are not asked to list the WG they are interested in.
That is accomplished by the blue sheets. I wonder if there is a way to do
something analogous to the blue sheets for remote participants, whether
through jabber, email, doodle-poll, wiki, whatever.
Yeah. I had in mind something like doodle. Simple, lightweight works
and gets data.
Also we can start this on a WG-by-WG groups though an IETF wide tool
would be useful.
I agree with your points 2 and 3.
Janet