On Thursday, October 16, 2014, Jelte Jansen <jelte.jansen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/15/2014 04:15 AM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote:
> FYI, today I published an I-D that provides a few suggestions for
> fulfilling the role of a "Jabber Scribe" during IETF meetings:
>
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-saintandre-chatroom-relay/
>
> Feedback is welcome. (Please send it to me directly or cc me, since I am
> not subscribed to the ietf@xxxxxxxx list.)
>
Oh nice!
I've jabber-scribed a number of times, a few suggestions, no
requirements for the scribe but things that tend to make the process easier:
... and when chairing I *always* mean, but usually forget, to say that the jabber scribe gets priority at the mic for relaying comments.
Attending remotely is hard enough without having to wait for the queue to drain, by which time your comment has already been made, or is no longer relevant or similar...
W
- as a scribe you may not know all people that step up to the mic, this
is not a big problem but it helps if you are clear about it, so
signaling you don't know or are not sure gives other people in the
jabber room a chance to fill in the name. I tend to use (?) behind a
name if i'm not sure and use (??) as the whole 'name' if I don't know at
all. Doesn't matter what method is used as long as it's clear. Most
importantly for 'new' scribes: it should be clear that you do not need
to know everybody by name.
- there usually is a lot of side-chat in the jabber room (i tend to do
that a lot as well), and most of it does not necessarily needs to find
its way back into the real room. As a scribe it helps to be very clear
in advance on how to signal to you that someone wants something relayed
to the mic; so ask people to put MIC: or something similar in front of
messages they want relayed.
Jelte
--
I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants.
---maf