On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:11:44 -0700
James Bottomley [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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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.

Plumbers also has the advantage of having a throwable mic. And not just
one of them, we have two and a normal mic as well as a lavalier mic.

Having someone running around the audience passing the mic is not very
efficient, and having to get up and stand at a microphone, may be too
intimidating for some.

-- Steve