[ga] General Assembly comments

[Kendall Dawson <kendall@obs-us.com>]

Hi,

On Monday Ben Edelman posted a response to Joanna's suggestions for 
improved coverage from  the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. First, I 
want to thank Ben for all the hard work and for providing us a chance to 
participate in these events remotely. But, I would also like to offer a 
suggestion of my own.

 >>  Ben Edelman wrote:
 >>  ---------------------------
 >>  "continuing the existing system of recognizing some remote comments along
 >>  with audience questions, reading comments out loud in their entirety, and
 >>  allowing the Board / NC to respond.."

I participated in the November meeting (Los Angeles) remotely via the 
Berkman Center link. One thing that struck me during the session was that 
too often a "random" question seemed to be selected while more important 
questions that everybody in the chat room was talking about were skipped 
over. It would be nice if the remote participants could have some input as 
to which questions get asked of the Board / NC.

Say, for example, there was a "question queue"  that was a separate from 
the chat-room with 10-20 questions being chosen by an observer. Then, the 
participants of the chat room, (or Net users with web access) would be 
asked to quickly vote on 2-3 questions which would then be asked out-loud. 
This way there would not be such a random feeling to the selection of 
questions - but, they would actually be the questions that a majority of 
people participating want answered.


Best Regards,


Kendall

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