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Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Fri, 31 July 2020 13:08 UTC

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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:08:41 -0700
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Lou Berger <lberger@labn.net>
Cc: Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 09:06:44AM -0400, Lou Berger wrote:
> 
> On 7/30/2020 5:07 PM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:
> > But I wonder if leaving Gather.Town up for (at a minimum) the week 
> > before and week after an IETF meeting week would allow people to do a 
> > better job of contacting people you want to talk to, especially if 
> > there is a way to say "I'm planning to talk to (perhaps include names, 
> > and other) people who are interested in aspects of immersive media on 
> > Tuesday, at this time, please feel free to stop by".
> >
> I'm in!  I'd love to try using it instead of webex for our informal 
> authors meetings and maybe even a virtual interim...

I'll note that the demo version we tried out a few weeks ago included a
presentation space, with a podium on stage that would send media to
everyone in the room (but the people in the rest of the room obeyed the
usual locality rules).

-Ben

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