Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/16/14 1:03 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: > >> 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... > > "Might already have been made" strikes me as a poor reason to jump the > queue. I think Warren meant that the jabber scribe shouldn't have to wait in line -- that a remote participant's place in line should be set when the "MIC:" comment comes on jabber, without the jabber scribe having to leave his/her seat. Jabber scribing is hard enough when you're sitting; and must suffer while you stand in line. (Also, it's even harder to read name-tags while standing _behind_ the person at the mike.) There's a balancing act here: how do we trust a jabber scribe to estimate the correct place-in-line for the remote participant? IMHO, the right solution would involve making a separate mike available to the jabber scribe, and having the meeting chair tell the jabber scribe when to use it. (YMMV, I suppose...) -- John Leslie <john@xxxxxxx>