Re: [irsg] Closing the queue

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Just following up on these excellent suggestions ("do the right thing", of
course),

I totally agree with Jen on having a button to "close the queue", whether
that's a "hard close", so you can't ignore the close, or a "soft close",
that (new variant) flags the people who added themselves after the line was
closed, but We All Know What You Did Last Session.

If I might make another queue-related suggestion - there are chairs who are
un-distracted enough to consistently remove people from the queue when
they're speaking, but that's asking the chairs to watch ANOTHER thing
during the session, so often, it's up to us to remove ourselves from the
queue.

For me, that means "turn off my raised hand to get out of the queue when
I'm recognized, AND turn on my audio, AND turn on my video if we seem to be
doing that", followed by "turn off my audio, AND turn off my video", or
some variation thereof.

I can't count the number of people this week who

   - turned on the video and started talking with no audio, OR
   - turned on the video and audio and started talking, and only turned off
   one of them, OR
   - my personal favorite - turned off audio and video, and left themselves
   in queue, but since no one else was in queue, the chair didn't realize that
   until the next presentation started and the chair had time to look at the
   queue, and then message *me* privately and say "can you ask that question
   during the general Q&A?" and I had literally no idea what Lars was talking
   about during the plenary (I can't count that one, but I know the number was
   at least "one") 😂

It seems that there are higher level operations that we could be looking at
here ...

Best,

Spencer



On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 7:46 AM Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 2021-07-30, at 05:16, Bob Hinden <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > I agree this would helpful.   It will, of course, require the chair(s)
> to remember to turn the queue back on for the next presentation.
>
> It is probably better not to “close the queue” (i.e., make the hands-up
> button inactive), but simply to change the color of the next hands-up entry
> that is made.  Rotate through 3-4 colors (yes, lightnesses, hatchings, …),
> and we should be safe.  If these were formal meetings, we’d need
> double-hands (point of order) as well…  and same topic/other topic...
>
> (Ceterum censeo: And move the damn thing BELOW the current speaker.)
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
>