On 4/11/16 8:30 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
I also have no doubt one could do a 1000 person remote meeting.
That being said, I've tried to do remote attendence at meetings
both where there is a small timezone offset and a large timezone
offset. The small timezone offset "works" but in no way replaces
face to face meetings. The large timezone offset only works if you
have 1 or 2 working groups to want to attend.
Face to face forces attendees to be mostly in sync with respect to
the timezone. BA was a 10 hour shift for me but it was do able.
Well, keep in mind that a 1000-person in-person meeting is pretty hard
as well. Sure, it works as a plenary session, but in-person working
meetings also break down at pretty low numbers.
Now, if one thinks about multiple, simultaneous, remote meetings - of
10-50 people each - things start to sound a more feasible.
Just a thought,
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra