On 4/8/16, 1:57 PM, "vmeet on behalf of Dave Crocker" <vmeet-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of d...@dcrocker.net> 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 _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet