Re: Virtual Meetings / Work Process Thoughts

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Jason,

> On Mar 27, 2020, at 7:48 AM, Livingood, Jason <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> A few random observations for Jay (cc’d) or anyone else starting to build a list of requirements (if we assume we must do virtual 108, 109, 1XX) or practices for conducting a WG meeting.
> 
> 	• It’d be nice to have a very easy, preferably web-based chat channel for each WG session.
> 	• We need a better mechanism to manage the mic queue rather than +Q and -Q in the chat channel.
> 	• We need more scale & performance on some of the backend servers (I often experience slowness on datatracker, etherpad, main webpage, etc.)
> 	• We need a virtual hum tool of some kind that’s not voting. Maybe if we want to hum we all click a button and you see a “volume” level increase kind of like an audio-level display. Or maybe everyone goes off mute for an actual hum. Who knows.
> 	• Some process stuff:
> 		• I would like to be able to have the chair(s) on video at the same time as slides, not one or the other.
> 		• With mic lines, I’d like to have the person speaking “at the mic” on video as well as the speaker(s) and/or chair(s).
> 		• This may be achievable with tools like Webex or Zoom – or not. Or it might require a dedicated video conference manager to handle it (kind of like the people at the mixing board in the back of the ballroom during a plenary) – and we should be open to resourcing this if needed.

It would be good to see how much of this Meetecho can do, it’s already well integrated with IETF tools, has a separate speaker queue, and (I think) separate viewing of slides and video of speaker.

Bob

> 
> Thanks
> Jason