Re: Maintainers / Kernel Summit 2021 planning kick-off

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Jun 18 2021 - 10:11:53 EST


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.

James