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

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

Stephen,

As a remote participant these days, I really appreciate the single queue.
As many have said, it's fair to everyone, and you can see the name of the
speaker. This is especially important when you're remote because the camera
being broadcast isn't always the one pointing at the person speaking at
that moment, and even when it is pointed at the speaker, you can't always
tell who it is.

The single queue also allows a remote chair if necessary, since it's
otherwise impossible to manage a line of standing people that you can't
see. :-)

Cheers,
Andy


On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:02 AM 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.
>