Chris Russell wrote on 01/07/2020 17:43:
This one will be Zoom, funnily enough I had this discussion with Job S
yesterday about another conference. Reason for Zoom is specifically at
this point, we and Bogons both know it and it works for us in webinar mode.
The point you (and Job yesterday) raise though is valid, we will
definitely try and look into other conferencing systems. It's a balance
between time/resources to learn a new system specifically for webinars,
vs being as open as possible so we can't guarantee we'll have switched
by a specific time but we will look.
yep, totally get the trade-off here. In the case of Zoom, the
functionality and hassle-free setup is great from the point of view of
conference organisers, but it's pretty frustrating to try to join a
meeting where the conference organiser has enabled "join from browser"
and you click on the browser link and it eventually tells you to
download an installable. Thanks but no thanks.
Will add this, for anyone not on the RIPE / LINX future of conferences
discussion (involving NANOG too) , things like this are being discussed
- yesterdays catch up was good, lots of information sharing there are a
raft of questions right now in terms of how we move forward and what we
can do attract sponsorship, increase reach and whether being online
increases diversity. We in this sense being those who run Internet
conferences. Keep and eye for a post on RIPE labs in the near future on
this once they've had a chance to write things up.
Great. I was lurking on that session yesterday (via ipad) and should
really have brought it up then.
Nick
