On 18-Apr-20 05:27, Keith Moore wrote: > On 4/17/20 12:58 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: > >> "The time of day of the meeting was too difficult for me to participate" 47% >> >> Almost half of the responses said this. This seems like an inherent problem with virtual meetings, probably accounts for the answers to question 1, "In what region do you live?”. This showed 53% from US and Canada, and 31% from Europe. Very little elsewhere. I wish there was a solution to this, but it’s clearly going to have a significant effect on IETF attendance until we can start having face to face meetings again. > > I suspect there's a way to structure virtual meetings to enable more > effective participation from a wider variety of locations. Sent at 05:27 in my time zone. Replying at 08:10 in my time zone, to observe that this is exactly why the IETF's decision making occurs on mailing lists, or the data tracker, not in meetings. We should make more use of that. For example, I've seen people asking for "presentation" slots in virtual meetings. No! We can all read drafts and slides at any time we choose. I'd even accept slides with audio commentary. But I'm not going to get up at 3 a.m. to hear someone reading out their slides. Shouldn't we be limiting virtual meetings to actual discussion? As Keith says: > For example: divide up the meeting into separate presentation and > discussion sessions. Record the presentations at least a couple of > days in advance and make them available for viewing and/or download. > Schedule two discussion sessions on the same material, say 12 hours > apart, so that at least one discussion session can likely be attended by > everyone. Record the discussion sessions also, and send transcripts to > the mailing lists. Consider making the discussion sessions chat > sessions (but make sure that the chat sessions are web-accessible in > addition to being jabber-accessible or whatever). Yes. Brian
