Virtual Meetings / Work Process Thoughts

["Livingood, Jason" <[e-mail]>]

A few random observations for Jay (cc’d) or anyone else starting to build a list of requirements (if we assume we must do virtual 108, 109, 1XX) or practices for conducting a WG meeting.


  *   It’d be nice to have a very easy, preferably web-based chat channel for each WG session.
  *   We need a better mechanism to manage the mic queue rather than +Q and -Q in the chat channel.
  *   We need more scale & performance on some of the backend servers (I often experience slowness on datatracker, etherpad, main webpage, etc.)
  *   We need a virtual hum tool of some kind that’s not voting. Maybe if we want to hum we all click a button and you see a “volume” level increase kind of like an audio-level display. Or maybe everyone goes off mute for an actual hum. Who knows.
  *   Some process stuff:
     *   I would like to be able to have the chair(s) on video at the same time as slides, not one or the other.
     *   With mic lines, I’d like to have the person speaking “at the mic” on video as well as the speaker(s) and/or chair(s).
     *   This may be achievable with tools like Webex or Zoom – or not. Or it might require a dedicated video conference manager to handle it (kind of like the people at the mixing board in the back of the ballroom during a plenary) – and we should be open to resourcing this if needed.

Thanks
Jason