Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town

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On 7/30/20 04:30, Adrian Farrel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am I the only one to miss random corridor conversations that happen at
> face-to-face IETF meetings?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?

Being in an inconvenient time zone this time has led to me for example
being somewhat parsimonious with time, i suspect that others may have
similar considerations. concurrency with timezone distributed
communities is hard.

> Thanks,
> Adrian
> 


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