Re: Reaching active speakers for fixing issues

[Karl Voit]

Hi!

Sacha Chua (sacha@sachachua.com) wrote:

> I'm for phone if people feel comfortable sharing their phone numbers with
> us. An Internet hiccup (ex: frozen connection) will disrupt IRC as well,
> and it would be nice to have something that can (mostly) reliably make
> something go ding or ring-ring-ring.

Good point: a separate channel (tech-independent) is a good idea.

> Sacha Chua - sacha@sachachua.com - Blog: sachachua.com
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 10:48 PM Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi karl,
> >
> > [ sorry for my slow replies to these ]
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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).
> >

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Karl Voit