On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 6:09 PM Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Toerless Eckert <tte@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [longer virtual room description removed] > > IMHO it would be mandatory to have such an option. > > FYI, in the past when participating in a 1000+ person photography group > I held multiple 3-day-weekend hangouts, where we kept a live video chat > open and people came and went over the three days. It worked amazingly > well; a lot of people met new friends, had great technical and personal > discussions, and occasionally paper notes were posted in front of > cameras saying "I'm the last one here during the night, but am leaving > the camera on to ensure this stays up until tomorrow". > > At the time, using the tool I selected, there was a 10 person limit to > the chat (common), and some people hated that because they couldn't get > in. My solution to this was multiple rooms, where if you failed to get > into one you just overflowed to the next. > > In the end: I support this and believe it could certainly work for a > virtual IETF both for morning and cookie-break periods and potentially > even evening breaks as well. > I'd like to point out that we already have: hallway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For real-time chatting during meetings that doesn't relate to any specific area or working group, participants are encouraged to use the "hallway" multi-user chat room on the IETF's XMPP sever. To join, point your XMPP (Jabber) client at "hallway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Note that this chat room isn't related to Affiliate Groups, but the intended social nature of that room is similar to the social nature of the mailing lists listed below. ( from: https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/affiliate/ ) [ This section intentionally left blank for the inevitabile discussion about the death of XMPP, and how [ Slack|Discord|Line|Messenger|IRC|ICQ|Signal|Telegram|AOL AIM|WhatsApp (select one, and only one)] is clearly much better for this sort of thing. ] > -- > Wes Hardaker > USC/ISI > -- 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
