For what it's worth, I've been a repeat-offender note-taker for a bunch of
groups at the IETF, and was doing that when we mass-created all the
jabber.ietf.org rooms.
It was obvious to me at that time (but I was wrong) that I should be
continuing to take notes in the jabber room, so people had the chance to
correct things I wasn't getting right, but the volume of my notes swamped
the ability of anyone else to use the jabber room for discussion, asking
questions, raising hands ...
This was true for working group meetings, virtual interim meetings, the IESG
telechats, and plenaries (so, across the board).
There were several IETFs where there were two jabber rooms (one for sessions
I was note-taking for, and one for other uses) for RAI working groups I was
note-taking for, but that happened two or three years ago, and I haven't
seen any meetings with two jabber rooms lately.
Spencer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Requirement to go to meetings
On 10/24/11 6:44 AM, Kevin Smith wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Dave CROCKER <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/24/2011 4:09 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
It's really not that big a deal. Make sure that audio is working,
that there's a Jabber scribe/Jabber room watcher
...
I have a concrete suggestion for WG chairs: don't ask for a "Jabber
scribe" (which makes it sound as if the hapless volunteer needs to type
everything that's said into the chatroom) but instead ask for someone
to
relay comments from the chatroom to the mic.
Basic question: what has been the claimed purpose for doing jabber
scribing?
I thought it was a means of produce raw minutes. A side -- and
sometimes
extremely valuable -- benefit is as a relatively real-time alternative
source of information about what is being spoken; this can be quite
helpful
for participants who are not native English speakers.
If neither of these purposes are worth the effort, then your suggestion
sounds dandy. If either is sufficiently valuable, then my question is
why
your groups haven't needed them. (I'm expecting the answer to be that
your
groups didn't feel the need; so my real question is why not?)
FWIW, I've found Jabber scribes supplementing the audio stream useful
because the audio stream alone isn't always sufficient to hear what's
going on, or to know who's speaking.
Problem is, it's a lot of work to scribe the audio, and it's not easy to
find volunteers for that task. I do think it's helpful for someone to at
least relay the names of those who step up to the mic, but that could be
done with those little RFID badges we experimented with a few times.
Peter
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