Re: [73attendees] Attendance by country

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Rosen, Brian wrote:
> If you think about it, you already know that.  Just thinking about
> regular conference bridges: everyone on the bridge works better than
> some people in a room and others on the bridge.  The in room people  
> get
> better interaction between themselves but worse interaction with  
> remote
> participants: worse than if everyone was on the bridge.  The remote
> participants get horrible experience with the mix.

This is just crappy technology.   Conference bridges exist because  
they are easy, not because they are the right solution.   Offsite  
participants ought to be able to speak questions into their laptop  
mics, and wg chairs ought to be able to queue those up in order  
against the people who are actually at the mics in the room.   When  
I'm taking minutes (for some reason I do that a lot), I'd like to be  
able to ask my own questions that way, rather than having to miss  
taking part of the minutes when I go up to the mic.

However, your larger point is probably true - if *everyone* were  
remote, then a lot of the technical issues of mixing remote and in- 
person participation would go away.   But I think the experience would  
be less satisfying even for the remote participants in that case,  
because the energy of in-person participation helps to drive the  
process in a way that purely remote participation would not.

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