On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 16:28 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 4:11 PM James Bottomley
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 16:46 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

quoted

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?

Well, you can already in our hybrid plan:  BBB works on a phone as a
web app, so you'd appear in the conference as a remote attendee even
though you're sitting in the room.  However, not everyone's phone will
run the app, so we still need the throwable solution.

The main problem with using this method is that you're going to have to
mute the phone speaker output to prevent audio feedback, but I'm sure
we'll only get that wrong a few times before people work it out ...

James