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

[Aaron Parecki <[e-mail]>]

As an in-person participant, I found it quite straightforward to add myself
to the queue with meetecho lite, and I appreciate the unified in-room and
virtual queue. I would not want to change that. I also appreciated being
able to remain seated until I was called up.

As a new chair, I appreciated having participants' names visible so that I
can more quickly learn names of people in the group.

If anything, what's missing is a way to highlight on the screen the name of
the person speaking at the microphone, similar to how you can always see
the name of the remote person speaking. (In practice, I noticed a mix of
people/chairs removing the person from the queue when they got to the mic,
so their name was no longer visible while speaking.)

Aaron



On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 7:08 AM Joel Halpern <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I don't think we can stop requiring the use of the queue, as otherwise
> including remote participants becomes very difficult.
>
> Having said that, maybe there are other changes that can be made to
> address the important issue that we do want discussion of topics at the
> mike.  That is generally why we are having the meeting sessions.
>
> At one point, the plenary used a dual-queue approach where comments on
> the current topic could come forward before folks who wanted to raise
> another issue.  I don't know quite how to represent that with the
> tooling, or how to make it timely enough to be effective, but I wonder
> if something like that could be helpful?
>
> Yours,
>
> Joel
>
> On 11/23/2022 10:02 AM, Stephen Farrell 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.
>
>