Re: [111attendees] So, what are jabber scribes actually doing, these days?

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Sean,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 4:22 PM Sean Turner <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Now that it’s integrated into meetecho - the only thing you need to do is
> have somebody watch the meetecho for @mic or as MT suggested changing the
> scribes name to “Mic” and relaying anything sent to the scribe.
>

Thanks for the feedback. That's what I remember when I was chairing
face-to-face meetings, but wanted to push down a level or two.

What I thought, was that chairs needed to be looking at the mic queue.
which by default is toggled with the chat window, and might not have the
screen real estate to detach the chat in Meetecho, so you can move it to
another part of your screen (or another Display), or might not know you can
detach the chat window at all. If the chairs can see both (especially if
the meeting has more than one chair), ISTM that the chairs would know about
questions from jabber at the same time as everyone else.

Are there other reasons why we still need jabber scribes? (and Yoav's
suggestion to call them "jabber mediums", because they channel the words of
Those Who Are Not With Us, is brilliant).


> Personally, now that there is slack (and clones). which the rest of the
> world uses, I basically don’t use Jabber anymore.
>

I'm only using it at IETF meetings (and checking that it still works). And
a fair number of attendees don't know that if they're in Meetecho, the chat
IS the jabber room - I've heard "I don't have a jabber client" as recently
as Monday.

I wonder if the people I've talked to who are reluctant to install a jabber
client, or forbidden by their IT people from installing a jabber client,
would have the same problem with downloading the Slack client. I have very
little experience with the Slack web interface, but wonder if it would be
usable enough for us to point people toward it.

What I really wish, was that we'd request Meetecho to process their jabber
feed, which doesn't have the unhelpful "has joined the room"/"has left the
room" messaging that makes watching Jabber clients a pain, and store the
results someplace. This is something I miss from having Meetecho archives,
since the jabber window doesn't appear in YouTube (I just checked MOPS for
yesterday, and it's not there - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcxvSL2dXEo
).

But that's a side issue, and not relevant to whether we NEED a jabber
scribe.

Best,

Spencer