Re: [88attendees] thank you - Vancouver first

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Sunday, 10 November, 2013 13:53 -0500 Michael Richardson
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>     > I was in one working group meeting this week where the
> chairs could NOT     > recruit a jabber scribe, after asking
> to the point of obnoxiousness, so     > anything that makes us
> more aware of, and responsive to, remote participants     > is
> accomplishing something, and we may have a little more work to
> do ...
> 
> It also made it really easy for the person to clearly "take
> the hat off", as they went to the mic/etc. to offer their own
> opinion.

That, of course, was the primary idea -- to make it easy for the
chair or other person in the front of the room to identify
someone speaking as Jabber scribe and either asking for
clarification of something or providing input from remote
participants.

If the problem is actually a scribe recruitment issue, we may
need to figure out how much we care about remote participants
and, if we do, be prepared to reward such people in more
tangible ways than temporary use of a hat.

I did think of putting "IETF 88" on a third line on the hats and
bringing out enough for each WG, Sunday tutorial, and plenary
session, but the idea exceeded my luggage allowance and the
amount I was willing to invest in the experiment.

    john