On 4/8/16, 1:57 PM, "vmeet on behalf of Dave Crocker" <[email protected]
on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>On 4/8/2016 10:03 AM, Ray Pelletier wrote:
>> I really like the idea of the chair cockpit. For example, we could get
>> Meetecho to pre-load the slides that have been loaded in to the tools site
>> (and all of the associated drafts), have their laptop connected to both
>> projectors, and have their laptop be the place where you navigate the decks.
>> The meetecho team was fantastically helpful this week, springing into
>> action whenever you said their name in the jabber channel. That could be
>> made more discoverable in a tweaked UI.
>
>
>In practical terms, this needs one person focused on running the meeting
>and a second person, sitting next to the first, running the meeting's
>integrated tech cockpit.
>
>More generally:
>
> We should formulate basic operational scenarios for each relevant
>actor (chair running the meeting, chair operating the cockpit,
>presenters in the room, presenters not in the room, audience in the
>room, audience not in the room.
>
> And we should formulate templates for how they interact.
>
>I think we are remarkably close to being able to make things work quite
>well. Maybe not reaching the magical 'seamlessly', but quite well.
>
> From my experience this week, the biggest deficiency is queue
>management. The virtual queue, for remote participants, worked
>usefully, but have in-room folk be in a separate queue creates a
>juggling problem operationally. Things will get far simpler if/when we
>figure out a workable way to get in-room folk also be listed in the
>virtual queue.[*]
>
>I suspect there is also an issue with the virtual queue, in terms of
>remote hubs, if they also have in-room microphones.
>
>Anyhow, defining the scenarios we want to support and targeting them is
>what we should do. And if we want this to be real for IETF 100, we'd
>better target a serious dress rehearsal for IETF 98.
>
>d/
>
>[*] I suspect we are also going to want two or more cameras in a room,
>so that folk can see chairs, in-room speaker, and audience-at-microphone
>simultaneously.
Running a tech cockpit might be a task that could/should be offloaded from the
chairs. When I was a chair, I found having to fiddle with all of the "tech
stuff" to be distracting from actually paying attention to the meeting itself,
which is where my focus as a chair needed to be.
Tony
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