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SubjectRe: Maintainers / Kernel Summit 2021 planning kick-off
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:11:44 -0700
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 16:46 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > For workshop or brainstorming types of sessions, the highest barrier
> > to participation for remote attendees is local attendees not speaking
> > in microphones. That's the number one rule that moderators would need
> > to enforce, I think all the rest depends on it. This may require a
> > larger number of microphones in the room than usual.
>
> Plumbers has been pretty good at that. Even before remote
> participation, if people don't speak into the mic, it's not captured on
> the recording, so we've spent ages developing protocols for this.
> Mostly centred around having someone in the room to remind everyone to
> speak into the mic and easily throwable padded mic boxes. Ironically,
> this is the detail that meant we couldn't hold Plumbers in person under
> the current hotel protocols ... the mic needs sanitizing after each
> throw.
>

Plumbers also has the advantage of having a throwable mic. And not just
one of them, we have two and a normal mic as well as a lavalier mic.

Having someone running around the audience passing the mic is not very
efficient, and having to get up and stand at a microphone, may be too
intimidating for some.

-- Steve

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