On 27 Mar 2020, at 11:12, Paul Hoffman wrote:
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.
I think this was worsened this week because most of the groups were BoFs
or first-time-meeting-WGs. That means that the presentations were truly
bringing some people up to speed on the technology, while folks already
familiar (proponents or folks steeped in the field) were having more
elaborate jabber discussions. For regular WGs, where the presentations
are (should be?) just issues slides to frame discussion, mic discussion
will take more bandwidth for everyone and jabber won't be as busy.
Figuring out how to do less linear mic discussion would also improve
interaction and put less pressure on jabber.
pr
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