Re: [113attendees] hybrid meetings: the worst of both worlds

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2022-03-25, at 16:44, Joris Baum <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> I just had a weird idea I wanted to share. Even though the remote hallway discussion experience will probably always be a bit lacking behind, maybe one way to improve this is to have something like "gather areas" on-site. Something like a bridge between virtual and on-site. An open space in the hallway with a mic and a big screen where people from on-site and gather could talk to each other without a big communication barrier.

That idea is not so weird at all.

I didn’t really have time to use gather this time either, but the hjkl interface didn’t really help me find the people that I wanted to “run into”.  Some more sensible people met down at the area tables.  Maybe we can start with those, mirroring them to the physical world.

(The basic idea is very old and can be extended to “half-rooms” for physical-only meetings that occur at different places synchronously.  In most one-room physical meetings with added virtual attendance, you find people sitting beside the camera and talking to some people who are remote, without any benefit of formal meeting arrangements.
We could expand on that.)

Oh, and what Henk said.

I was remote, but definitely benefitted from the additional energy that the on-site participants had.  We built our own half-rooms for some side discussions; that should be supported some more.

Grüße, Carsten