Re: Reaching active speakers for fixing issues

[Karl Voit]

Hi,

Amin Bandali (bandali@gnu.org) wrote:

> [ sorry for my slow replies to these ]

Hehe. *I* am the one who most likely is the least responsive person
for the event :-(

> Karl Voit writes:
> 
> > Sacha Chua (sacha@sachachua.com) wrote:
> >
> >> I'm thinking about the couple of times that we had frozen talks and the
> >> speaker didn't notice, because things looked fine on their end. It would
> >> help to have a quick way to make something go ding, since they might not be
> >> paying attention to the pad and IRC moves too quickly. We have
> >> international folks, so if someone happens to have a free or
> >> inexpensive way to call, that would probably beat me ringing them on my 
> >> cell
> >> phone. I don't know if Mumble is enough of a backup for this scenario,
> >> since an Internet hiccup would disrupt that too.
> >
> > As a speaker, I'd prefer text messages via Phone (or app) or a
> > separate channel I might be able to keep an eye on during the
> > presentation.
> >
> > This separate computer channel might be an IRC chat where *only
> > relevant* messages pop up. I would not be able to separate irrelevant
> > messages from relevant while giving a talk. Maybe an IRC room for
> > each speaker? With a naming convention like ec20-LASTNAME this could
> > be handled well, I presume.
> 
> Thanks for sharing your perspective and preference.  I think we will go
> with phone number (either quick call or text) for emergency purposes.
> Otherwise, I think one IRC channel per each speaker may be a bit
> unmanageable, no?  We expect #emacsconf-org to be *quite* low-traffic if
> it's anything like last year.  So I think if each live speaker could
> keep an eye on #emacsconf-org and their phone for emergency purposes it
> would be great.

OK, if the orga-team does not chat about upcoming slots and so
forth, traffic could be kept low. I was not part of the orga chat
last year (I think) and therefore I can not tell.

> That said, If you and/or other orgas feel strongly about experimenting
> with one IRC channel per speaker, I would be okay with giving it a shot
> for this year and see how it turns out.  Let me know if y'all would like
> to do this; otherwise let's stick with #emacsconf-org + phone (only if
> absolutely necessary).

No strong feelings from my side ;-)

-- 
Karl Voit