On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:11:44 -0700 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 16:46 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > For workshop or brainstorming types of sessions, the highest barrier > > to participation for remote attendees is local attendees not speaking > > in microphones. That's the number one rule that moderators would need > > to enforce, I think all the rest depends on it. This may require a > > larger number of microphones in the room than usual. > > Plumbers has been pretty good at that. Even before remote > participation, if people don't speak into the mic, it's not captured on > the recording, so we've spent ages developing protocols for this. > Mostly centred around having someone in the room to remind everyone to > speak into the mic and easily throwable padded mic boxes. Ironically, > this is the detail that meant we couldn't hold Plumbers in person under > the current hotel protocols ... the mic needs sanitizing after each > throw. > Plumbers also has the advantage of having a throwable mic. And not just one of them, we have two and a normal mic as well as a lavalier mic. Having someone running around the audience passing the mic is not very efficient, and having to get up and stand at a microphone, may be too intimidating for some. -- Steve
