Re: Maintainers / Kernel Summit 2021 planning kick-off

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 4:11 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

What about letting people use the personal mic they're already
carrying, i.e. a phone?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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