[Go] GO meeting registrations

[Judith Blake]

Hi,

This is great Jen, thanks.  I hope that many will indicate that they will be listening and participating.  As the ability to teleconference improves, albeit incrementally, I hope that we will get greater participation in GOC meetings.  From experience, I think we will need to have someone designated to 'raise their hands' for those remotely who try to speak or send a chat request for time.  It's harder to get heard in the clamor, but absolutely necessary that remote voices get their time.

Judy

On 3/3/09 6:18 AM, "Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)" <jdeegan at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,

I have added a table at the bottom of the page where people can sign up
to participate remotely. It would be great if we could have accurate
numbers well in advance as this will enable us to get technology which
is capable of handling the required number of connections.

http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/2009_Oregon_Meeting_Logistics#Remote_Attendees

Since it is much cheaper and easier for participants to take part
remotely, I would imagine that people who would not normally be able to
attend may be able to listen in this time. If you would be interested to
participate, please add your details and we will figure out if we can
accommodate everyone.

Some people have mentioned that it may be difficult to call in in the
evening when at home with children. However we have found from
experience that muting the microphone and listening to the meeting like
a radio programme works well in this situation. The microphone can
easily by turned back on to allow the remote participant to contribute
to the meeting. We plan to show the talk slides via a screensharing
system so all remote participants will be able to follow the visual aids
as well as the sound.

Thanks for taking the time to fill in the table.

Best wishes,

Jennifer


Midori Harris wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Suzanna Lewis wrote:
>
>> no Pombe or Human or GOED at all, not even one person (other than fly
>> folk) from the UK?
>
>
> That's correct, I'm afraid. The dates don't work for me at all, and the
> others couldn't find flights with either reasonable cost or reasonable
> timing (let alone both). So we're all joining the Webex/conf call
> brigade instead (and I'll have to miss part of the 30th).
>
> m
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