On 3/8/2018 12:06 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2018-03-08 17:49:35 +0000 (+0000), Flint WALRUS wrote:
Pretty easy, put the PTG online with a livestream on
YouTube/Hangout/whatever platform that will then be saved and could even be
watched later on!

It’s just a matter of some hardware and a decent internet bandwidth that’s
already available to almost every places where a PTG took place.

Problem solved.
[...]

Have you ever actually tried it? I know this seems simple to "solve"
with technology, but put 50 people in a room having a heated
conversation (or sometimes several conversations at once) and then
try to bridge some people in via phone, video conference, whatever
and see how it works out in reality.

The times it's been tried, either the remote participants get
frustrated because nobody is paying attention to them/speaking into
microphones/keeping discussion to one thread at a time, or the
in-person participants get frustrated because they have to start
acting like they're all on separate telephones and drag down the
bandwidth of the conversation to the point where it may as well be
100% remote/separate participation anyway.

We've made it work to varying degrees in the past, but it's not so
simple as you would seem to imply no matter how good the technology.


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Jeremy,

Cinder has been doing this for many years and it has worked relatively well.  It requires a good remote speaker and it also requires the people in the room to be sensitive to the needs of those who are remote.  I.E. planning topics at a time appropriate for the remote attendees, ensuring everyone speaks up, etc.  If everyone, however, works to be inclusive with remote participants it works well.

We have even managed to make this work between separate mid-cycles (Cinder and Nova) in the past before we did PTGs.

Jay
(jungleboyj)
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