Re: Closing the queue

Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> Fri, 30 July 2021 23:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: Closing the queue
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 11:01:52 +1200
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> On 31/07/2021, at 10:56 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
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> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 5:25 PM Jen Linkova <furry13@gmail.com <mailto:furry13@gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 6:33 AM Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com <mailto:fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I would suggest that one say “I’m closing the queue after <nam>”, and have a way to tell meet echo that it should stop putting new people in the queue.
> 
> Actually I'd say that "hard lock" might be suboptimal - sometimes we
> might still want people joining after the queue is closed as an
> exception - like an AD making comments etc. In real life even after
> the queue is closed people still can jump to the mic to respond to
> comments etc.
> 
> I've been wrong before, but I THOUGHT sending audio and/or video was also on the honor system - I think I've been able to turn on at least audio and break in for at least comments before the session starts, without queuing. Am I missing something?

Yes it is an honour system.  Meetecho tried a permissions system and nobody liked it.

Jay

> 
> Best,
> 
> Spencer
>  
> Personally I'd be very happy if I can click on "closing the queue in
> 15 secs" and the queue section goes, for example, orange  and the
> title says "QUEUE: CLOSING". After 15 sec it goes red(*) and marked as
> CLOSED.
> As a result it's clearly visible for the participants that it's closed
> and for the chairs that they need to re-open before/during the next
> talk, white there is still possible to join it.
> 
> (*) color examples are chosen randomly and might not accommodate
> color-blind cases.
> 
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Jul 29, 2021, at 6:58 PM, Jen Linkova <furry13@gmail.com <mailto:furry13@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > While I'm very happy with Meetecho (wow, I've just managed to chair a
> > > session single-handed!), there is one missing feature which would make
> > > me very happy.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be great if we have a button to mark the queue "closed"?
> > > It might be just me but I really, really hate interrupting people just
> > > to say "I'm closing the queue after". Having smth like "The queue will
> > > be closed in 5..4..3..2..1" would be even better..
> > >
> > > Is there anyone else missing this feature? Or I'm just not aware of
> > > the best current practices in keeping the session on time?
> > >
> > > --
> > > SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry
> > >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry
> 

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
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