Re: Gather.town hour every month?

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > Sure. But gather.town could be made available for several hours
    > before/after the event to encourage pre/post event gatherings of the

I think that Carsten is suggestion that the gather.town meeting *is* the
event.  My understanding is that there is a "free" tier for less than 50
participants, but I'd prefer that the IETF write some kind of contract,
because I prefer being the customer, not the product.

I asked last spring if we could use meetecho for virtual interim meetings.
It's way better than webex.   The answer was that VMs needed to be spun up,
and that costed money and personnel that we hadn't allocated.

I note that virtual interim meetings are often much smaller (usually less
than 50, often less than 12) so maybe it doesn't need as much CPU.  And we
ought to be having only one at a time, although if you check the upcoming.ics
calendar, then you do see that occasionally there are overlaps.

    > community to experiment, discuss around the event. And of course, it
    > would foster the opportunity of multiple groups to informally coalesce
    > their events onto such a day. Maybe need to have a simple side meeting
    > style wiki to reserve room/time slot (room 1 from 1PM - 3PM taken for
    > the foobar meeting).

You are starting to attach structure here to what I thought was intended to
be a rather informal, rather social occurance.  If you want some structure,
then make it more like our bits'n'bytes, with 4-slide "posters" in certain places.

    > I am not quit sure abou the "range" of audio. I ran into what seemed to
    > be an MPTCP side meeting (at least thats what the payload turned into)
    > at the bar one day last week, and that seemed to work nicely for > 20
    > people, so the audio must have passed far enough. But i ran into
    > problems of audio not passing more than 2 people wide, even though i
    > think it was not the boundary of a private space...

I think that it depends upon how that space is setup.
The interaction distance setting has been removed, and I suspect that it's
now an "acoustic" property of the room.

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