Re: [ga] remote participation

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_chair@hotmail.com>]

Patrick,

>
>Having been to many such meetings I see many of the same faces at every 
>event.

In Yokohama I saw definitively more asians than in some other meetings.
And in Cairo I saw people that I did not see before, and probably never 
again.

In a certain sense, you are right, the ones that speak are always the same. 
But on the other hand, you have to admit that even on the lists the messages 
come often from the same limited (numerically) subset.

I don't have an easy answer: we should try our best to increase remote 
participation, but I don't think that this will dramatically change the 
situation. Just on one question I think we should be clear: the voting at 
physical meetings should be considered as indicative, while a real vote 
should be done online.
BTW, this is why I insisted, without success, to have a real motion to vote 
online to ratify some of the votings in Marina del Rey.

Regards
Roberto

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