I've tried staying in there (but muted using the "busy" indicator), and looking around occasionally for folks to have a side-conversation with. Same experience as you though, not a lot of participation. It might be useful to have the ability to be notified when someone becomes active. I think having to mark oneself "busy" in order for it to mute the camera and mic when I'm not looking at that web page is a problem too. I'm not really busy, I just don't want my camera and mic recording me when I'm not looking at the gather.town page. In person I know if someone is standing in front of me when I'm working on my laptop, not so with gather.town. Thanks, Chris. > On Jul 30, 2020, at 7:34 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:30:56PM +0100, Adrian Farrel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am I the only one to miss random corridor conversations that happen at >> face-to-face IETF meetings? > > Surely not! > >> Of course, planned coffee-time meet-ups can still be scheduled using a >> variety of meeting tools, but the casual bumping in to people and talking >> about things, and (better still) hooking into other people's conversations >> to learn and share, is a real loss. >> >> So I have been hanging around in Gather.Town >> (https://ietf.gather.town/z6N2SDxHebMdDAfo/IETF-108) and found this has >> worked quite nicely for exactly that reason. Quick hellos, short chats, or >> longer rambling debates have all been working nicely. > > Indeed, we had a nice group conversation yesterday. > >> But where is everybody? The number of people in the application seems to >> range between 20 and 50. >> >> Is the problem that Gather.Town makes you run all sorts of scripts that >> might be a bit icky? Or are we all really just antisocial? > > My personal guess is that more outreach would (have) help(ed). > > I've been trying to mention it in the closing remarks for my WGs now that > I've had some good experiences with it. > > -Ben >
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