Re: mic lines not working as well as they used to...

[Ian Swett <[e-mail]>]

I would prefer a model where the chairs add people to the mic line as they
enter it.  I don't want to require the chairs to know every participant's
name, so maybe they can have placeholders such as 'Person 1', 'Person 2',
if they don't know the speaker's name or don't want to enter it.

I do think having the queue management in Meetecho is nice, however, so
both remote and in person participants know where they are in line.

Ian

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:02 PM Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> I think we're making a bit of a mistake in requiring people
> who are in the room at meetings to join the meetecho queue
> before they join the physical mic line. It's not an end of
> the world thing, but I think it is a bit damaging.
>
> The results of what we've done this year seem to me to be
> that:
>
> - fewer people join mic lines overall
> - there's almost no real discussion of topics raised
>    at the mic as there used be
>
> I realise that being fair to remote participants needs to
> be a hard requirement, but I think we've gone a bit too far
> and ought back off some, e.g. to where we encourage but
> don't require people (whether remote or in-person) to join
> the meetecho queue. I think we ought also encourage more
> discussion at the mic (for both remote and in-person folks)
> and not be so fixated on the order in which people appeared
> in the meetecho queue. That requires a bit more chairing
> but that's why we're supposedly at the front of the room.
>
> But, maybe others like the current rigid setup or haven't
> found the lack of mic-line discussion a problem?
>
> Cheers,
> S.
>