On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Ted Lemon <ted.le...@nominum.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kap...@oracle.com> wrote: >> If the problem is "we don't know who's speaking", then fix that problem. In >> WGs I go to, both the WG chairs and the jabber scribes regularly yell >> "NAME!" if someone forgets to say it. Unlike DNS Ops, this isn't rocket >> science. > > This doesn't work very well. In one meeting where I was scribing this IETF, > I had to shout NAME at the same person several times, because he didn't state > his name clearly enough for me to be sure I'd gotten it, and so it didn't > stick. I hate doing this—I think it's disruptive, and nobody likes getting > yelled at. I certainly don't like _having_ to yell. Yeah, the best scenario (other than the person just remembering to say their name), is for the Chairs to remind them - because they have their own microphones so they don't have to actually yell. But another thing that works well is to have the jabber scribe sit in a seat right next to the microphone, because then they don't have to yell either. -hadriel
