On 4/11/16 8:30 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
I also have no doubt one could do a 1000 person remote meeting. That being said, I've tried to do remote attendence at meetings both where there is a small timezone offset and a large timezone offset. The small timezone offset "works" but in no way replaces face to face meetings. The large timezone offset only works if you have 1 or 2 working groups to want to attend. Face to face forces attendees to be mostly in sync with respect to the timezone. BA was a 10 hour shift for me but it was do able.
Well, keep in mind that a 1000-person in-person meeting is pretty hard as well. Sure, it works as a plenary session, but in-person working meetings also break down at pretty low numbers.
Now, if one thinks about multiple, simultaneous, remote meetings - of 10-50 people each - things start to sound a more feasible.
Just a thought, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra