> Relative to the question I tried to ask via Jabber, my guess is > that Andrew and Jari were expecting questions to come in via > Meetecho, no one told them it was down or having problems, and > there was therefore no fallback plan such as a designated Jabber > scribe/channel who was logged directly into the Jabber room. I > tried getting the attention of a few people in the room or on > the stage to tell them about the problem and point folks to > questions in the chat room, but failed. Stuff happens, Murphy's > Law is still applicable, and it seems to me that one of the key > lessons from this experience is that we should get better at > assuming systems will fail and that we should have detection > mechanisms and fallbacks thought out and in place. In this > case, the audio feed and slides distributed before the meeting > were adequate, even if not very good, substitutes for Meetecho, > but the failure of the Jabber channel for questions to work was > a much more serious problem. I’m sorry about this. That was my failure. Jari
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