One of my colleagues recently showed me this free app: http://crowdmics.com/ thinking that it might work for the IETF. It purports to do just what you are talking about and I've been mulling over how we might experiment with it (or something similar)
Alexa On Mar 11, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > > On 03/11/2014 08:00 AM, Brian Rosen wrote: >> I’ve been thinking about this, and wonder if we actually could make this >> even better. >> >> So, maybe the way we deal with mic is to…get rid of in-room microphones. >> Have an app that runs on phones, laptops and tablets that puts you in the >> queue, and you use your device mic to speak, when you are recognized. > > I ended up as note-taker in AQM last week. Even being an AD doesn't get you > out of taking notes :-) > > Which leads me to my point. It's a pretty serious disincentive for a serious > participant (and ADs are at least supposed to be paying attention between > e-mails) to volunteer as note-taker if they have to stand in a mike line > holding their laptop open and typing, in order to say anything. > > During the Harald Alvestrand-as-IETF Chair era, I was usually note-taker for > IESG plenaries, and we joked about that being a DOS attack because if I was > sitting down typing, I wasn't standing up talking (let's ignore whether that > was a good thing or a bad thing, OK?). > > Some chairs have let me wave frantically to attract their attention, so they > could put me "virtually in line" until it was my turn, but I was delaying the > meeting while running to the mike and missing about half what was said while > returning to my seat. > > Brian's suggestion could help with that. > > Spencer, as repeat-offender scribe-for-life > >> We might need some kind of way handle an in-room participant that doesn’t >> have a suitable device, but that is a very small minority of in-room >> participants. >> >> It may be that the app has to do echo cancel, or maybe we could do it >> centralized (as long as we can have accurate timing from the source). >> >> Brian > > _______________________________________________ > NOTE WELL: This list operates according to > http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet ---------- Alexa Morris / Executive Director / IETF 48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117, Fremont, CA 94538 Phone: +1.510.492.4089 / Fax: +1.510.492.4001 Email: [email protected] Managed by Association Management Solutions (AMS) Forum Management, Meeting and Event Planning www.amsl.com <http://www.amsl.com/>
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