On 27 Mar 2020, at 9:04, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
Il 27/03/2020 15:20 Robert Moskowitz <rgm-ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:
In My Not So Humble Opinion EVERYONE should get Jabber working and
join
in the Jabber for their session.
I don't know. I liked the side conversations on jabber, they were the
only social element of this IETF, but at times (not always) they went
beyond commenting what the current speaker was saying, and started
being separate complex technical conversations, and at that point it
became impossible to focus at the same time on the presentation and on
the side discussion. Sometimes it felt like the actual session was
going on in jabber, and the set of slowly changing slides with spoken
comment (which in a videoconference are bound to be boring anyway) had
become almost a background noise; perhaps that was not the intended
effect.
Vittorio is completely correct here, at least from my experience this
week. Paying attention to speakers at the same time as Jabber,
particularly during Q&A, was impossible. Jabber will always be more
entertaining than speakers, particularly during Q&A.
The result of the high volume of chatter in Jabber is that the meetings
themselves become even more just a place for presentations and mic
lines, not a group of people moving ideas forward.
--Paul Hoffman
