On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 10/23/11 8:59 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote: > > Can you give an example of chairs that do it well and what is > > it they do? Then perhaps contrast with what it is that chairs > > that do it poorly are doing. Feel free to use me as an example > > of a chair that does it poorly - I have no idea how to do it > > so it works at all much less works well. > > It's really not that big a deal. Make sure that audio is working, > that there's a Jabber scribe/Jabber room watcher and liaison-y sort > of person, and that remote participants are pinged regularly (and > *always* before a change of topic). Decision questions should go > out to the list as soon as possible, if not sooner. Make sure that > questions in the room and other discussion are audible to remote > folk. I'm unconvinced that having video would improve anything > and while something like whiteboarding might be useful in some cases > I don't think it would be used much. [As an aside I hope that the > RFP process doesn't result in a fancy pile of technology that looks > whizzy but doesn't actually improve meetings - I find that the > current stuff works well when the chairs are thinking about remote > participants] > > There have been a few sessions where audio wasn't working and there > was nobody in the Jabber room who was in the session and could relay > that information. One particularly badly-run session had the chairs > completely ignoring remote participants during the entire meeting and > then asking for volunteers, explicitly limiting it to people in the > room even though it was longer-term work. (I wrote to the chairs and > ADs after that one and never heard back from anyone). > > I really don't think it's that much effort and I don't think it's > disruptive, but I do think it requires of chairs a somewhat different > mental model of a meeting. > > Melinda > Ah, OK ... that sounds achievable - I certainly hope most WG these days are doing that. (and Stephen, agree with your point good to hear from people that don't god) _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf