Re: 1000 person virtual meeting (Was: Re: Concerns about Singapore)

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Tue, 12 April 2016 00:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: 1000 person virtual meeting (Was: Re: Concerns about Singapore)
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On 4/11/16 8:30 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> I also have no doubt one could do a 1000 person remote meeting.
>
> That being said, I've tried to do remote attendence at meetings
> both where there is a small timezone offset and a large timezone
> offset.  The small timezone offset "works" but in no way replaces
> face to face meetings.  The large timezone offset only works if you
> have 1 or 2 working groups to want to attend.
>
> Face to face forces attendees to be mostly in sync with respect to
> the timezone.  BA was a 10 hour shift for me but it was do able.
>

Well, keep in mind that a 1000-person in-person meeting is pretty hard 
as well.  Sure, it works as a plenary session, but in-person working 
meetings also break down at pretty low numbers.

Now, if one thinks about multiple, simultaneous, remote meetings - of 
10-50 people each - things start to sound a more feasible.

Just a thought,

Miles Fidelman



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