On 12/2/2012 8:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor management discipline.
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people are adults
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...there is a high road, let's take it.
A series of glib catch-phrases are certain not to facilitate meaningful discussion, any more than does treating the use of particular technologies as a problem.
The question put forward was serious and relevant. It warrants serious response.
Microphones introduce a consideration to the process, but then so does the 'presence' of remote participants. It's not that difficult to manage the room productively given these realities. Chairs do it all the time.
The discipline they impose varies, but, for example, a per-participant, random interpretation in the style of "do whatever you think is the adult behavior" isn't one of the choices. They /manage/ the process.
In very small scale, with a few active participants who share the same meeting management model, the chairs have a particularly easy time. But let's not confuse that with an amorphous "act like adults" reference.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net