[North America] Post from Stewart Bruce

[Clarke, Trevor]

Perhaps moderated presentations would work. Passively monitor the
presenter and ask questions via twitter, etc. A moderator would compile
questions and pass them to the presenter at the appropriate point in the
presentation.

 

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[mailto:northamerica-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Robert
Hollingsworth
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:09 AM
To: northamerica at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Fw: Re: [North America] Post from Stewart Bruce

 

Hmm... looks like this only replied directly to Mark, so I'll try it
this way...
My comments in top of quoted section...
(apologies if this appears twice...)
Robert

 

That's an intriguing idea.  Certainly one way to get access to people
who don't feel like traveling very far.  So many times with physical
venues, there's a huge over-representation of attendees who live within
50 miles of the meeting place.

Does anyone here have some experience with virtual conferences?  Does
this tend to be multiple small groups in geographically scattered
locations, with camera operators at each location?  I wonder if the
dynamics are such that people can converse comfortably and really
interact, or does it become rigid where everyone feels compelled to
shout the way they do when there's someone attending a meeting via
speaker phone..

One possibility to explore with something like this -- have a
'read-only' level of participation, where people can passively monitor
the proceedings over the web from their desks?

Robert

 

Why don't we plan to hold a virtual conference?  It would be practically
free to host, we could hold a variety of meeting opportunities via
virtual worlds perhaps meeting in the Army MOSES OS grid, hi-def video
conferencing, sessions in Adobe Connect or GoTo Meeting.  All of this
could easily be recorded for those that might miss a session or two.  I
have colleagues who manage very large hi-def video bridges that I could
convince to let us use for free too and I have five rooms in Adobe
Connect that can each handle 50 attendees.  I suspect many of us have
access to hi-def facilities that frankly do not get used enough as it
is.  I myslef have nine Lifesize systems and several Lifesize Desktop
licenses.  Plus you can download a free 30 day trial of Lifelize Desktop
for a conference use too.

 

It saves everyone a lot of travel money, avoids the expenses of hosting
a conference, and we could have social events in the virtual world with
BYOB.  Pass the pretzels please.

 

And it is repeatable to do these kind of gatherings on a more regular
basis.  Lets face it, we are all hi-tech folks so why don't we use the
technology to facilitate our discussions?

 


Stewart Bruce

Washington College

 


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