Re: [ga] remote participation

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

Joop Teernstra wrote on 18.02.01, 13:45:48:
> If Michael, Sotiris and all those who would love to participate f2f, but
> can't, can succeed with an experiment that can make remote participants
> truly feel part of the meetings and able to give and get the same input as
> local participants, this would be a major riveting experience with Net
> enabled technology.
> This alone would make it worthwhile to sit through a lot of the more boring
> stuff that is presented during ICANN meetings.

Having been a remote 'partipant' so far, listening to 
RealAudio, looking at transcripts and watching video 
streams (thanks to Ben and the Berkman Center team!),
I obviously see the value of a better system of remote
participation. Or rather: of remote *participation*
instead of *watching*. 

However, the proposal that the in-person participants take
part in the meeting as remote participants seems to take 
away all the advantages of physical meetings; why should 
there be physical meetings after all? The local community 
may be one aspect (which I obviously cannot judge), but 
I take it that face-to-face communication generally still 
gets more work done. 

The real problem is the GA list and its bad signal-noise 
ratio.  If the online GA can do everything the in-person 
GA can, why doesn't it get work done? (Yes, I am a member, 
so yes, this is also self-criticism.) It would be a 
disappointment if we extended this to the physical meetings.
There is obviously a difference in that the meetings, if
only remote participation was allowed, would be heavily
moderated. But I remain skeptical whether this is sufficient.

Instead of turning the physical meetings into a moderated
online chat, we should focus on the improvement of the GA list.
(And the unmoderated chat is totally discouraging; have a 
look at the log files if you have any doubts.)

> I think it is still a pipedream, but the principle is valid and the
> technology is moving fast.
> The real problem is us ourselves: can we cope with the sensory overload?
Agree.

Best regards,
/// Alexander

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