The application should probably turn off the laptop speaker to avoid
coupling.
Of course, it can be even improved if the chair can have a way to "pass the
virtual mic" to each of those that want to talk, something such as a simple
screen showing everyone who pushed the "talk" button in their own laptop and
when they queued, to keep the order. The chair can in any case, choose a
different order, cancel the talk requests in order to move to a different
topic, or whatever.
May be there is something similar, open source, which can be easily adapted
to our needs.
Regards,
Jordi
De: "James M. Polk" <jmpolk at cisco.com>
Responder a: <ietf-bounces at ietf.org>
Fecha: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:49:56 -0500
Para: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at columbia.edu>, Brian E Carpenter
<brc at zurich.ibm.com>
CC: <iad at ietf.org>, IETF General Discussion Mailing List <ietf at ietf.org>
Asunto: Re: IETF 63 On-line Survey
At 06:25 AM 8/18/2005 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
In my working group I would say that a bigger factor related to the
improved ability to hold a technical discussion were the four floating
microphones.
floating mics are a bad idea for many reasons - each getting worse with
room and or audience size increasing.
Who is in charge of who's next to speak?
Who passes the mics to the folks in the middle of a row who didn't bother
to get up?
Turning of heads happens now to know places (mics in the aisles), but
because seated persons are not standing, they cannot be easily seen,
causing some confusion and general discomfort in the audience to "find the
person", then "find their face" to know who's saying what - which is
important sometimes.
Few people talk during sessions, and those that do, know to sit where they
can readily get to a mic to make a point. I see nothing wrong with keeping
this layout
Participants are more than capable of turning their heads
but when holding a technical discussion those extra mics make a
significant difference.
Jeffrey Altman
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