Re: Jabber at IETF107 and a thank you

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

[Bcc ietf, Cc wgchairs]

Great summary, Rob. Thanks!

The one point sticking out to me was the jabber log. I think so far,
we did not attempt to capture side discussions on jabber in meeting
minutes, but only those jabber discuss that where taken to the official
microphone. Hopefully i am not wrong on this. But in any case, with
more remote attendants it seems like a good idea for wgchairs
to fold back relevant jabber side discussions into the meeting minutes
for posterity. Or post jabber logs to the proceedings. That probably
reequires tooling improvements (not sure).

Cheers
    Toerless

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:20:30AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> First I want to thank all the people that worked hard to make this first
> ever virtual IETF a reality.  ;)
> 
> I hope it is the last we need, as there was a lot missing, but there are a
> lot of take-aways to make in-person IETFs better and to perhaps make remote
> participation in in-person IETFs a richer experience.
> 
> In My Not So Humble Opinion EVERYONE should get Jabber working and join in
> the Jabber for their session.
> 
> Maybe it was always this way, and I never Jabbered, as I was in the session
> room, but this week Jabber was used for side discussions about the slide
> material without interupting the speaker.  I feel that valuable information
> was exchanged and maybe some questions answered well in the Jabber rather
> than at the mike and were thus captured in the Jabber log.
> 
> Jabber should be a regular activity for all session attendees.
> 
> The Hallway Jabber was kind of nice.  Lots of people in the Hallway but
> little jabbering.  It did give a sense of connection and was a bit fun.  It
> is an interesting question how to make something like this work for remote
> participants in the future.
> 
> 
> The WebEx worked reasonably well.  Lots of fumbling with slides, but that
> was expected.  Will MeetEcho scale up to a couple hundred remote
> participants per session?  Well when we have in-person, probably only a few
> sessions will have that many remotes.
> 
> 
> Etherpad seemed to work better than in the past.  I applaud note takers; I
> am terrible at it.  If more jabbered their comments, the notetaker's job
> SHOULD be earier.
> 
> Every presenter:  Remember to number your slides!  (I did not, oops).  We
> had participants that were not recieving the slides on WebEx and someone in
> Jabber was telling them which slide was showing so they could view the
> slides locally.
> 
> More of grey-hairs (so to include those that do not have facial grey hair)
> will be looking to remote participation rather than expend retirement
> benefits for all the travel costs, so we can expect to see more
> non-attendees attending if the experience was like it was this week.
> 
> Again, thanks to all involved.  Thanks to all participants to making the
> efforts of those that did the work being worthwhile.
> 
> My plane fhlight hoem was uneventful and now I have to get busy reving
> drafts per session discussions.
> 
> See you around the cookie table next time!
> 
> Bob

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