Re: Feedback from IETF 120 Vancouver post-meeting survey

Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org> Tue, 03 September 2024 07:02 UTC

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From: Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org>
To: Eliot Lear <lear@lear.ch>
Subject: Re: Feedback from IETF 120 Vancouver post-meeting survey
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:50:09 -0400
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Is the proposal that we not have a chat room? The chat room is voluntary and has real value for some people, so if someone is distracted by it then perhaps they should just close the chat window.

More disruptive IMO are the on-site in-room audience members who like to have long side conversations with each other during presentations or mic discussions. Unlike a chat room one cannot escape these people and their disruptive conversations. I actually ask people to stop it from the chair table if I can hear it, but not all chairs do (and you can't always hear this talking from the chair table either).

Thanks,
Chris.

Eliot Lear <lear@lear.ch> writes:

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> My point:
>
> It's better to have one meeting rather than two.  That is what the
> human brain is wired for.  When the chat really gets going, I will
> bet you that those people paying attention to the chat are missing at
> least some of what is being said at the microphone.  People fly great
> distances to participate in these meetings, and so paying attention
> to the meeting in the room is a matter of courtesy.  And those of us
> who do often miss what is being written in the chats.  Ergo two
> meetings.
>
> That said, I'm not suggesting that there's no purpose for the chat
> interface, and as I and others wrote, a very chatty chat room is a
> signal to the chairs that a topic may need more discussion time.
>
> Eliot
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