[kwlug-disc] Attendance

[Chris Frey]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 09:19:59AM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> I disagree fairly strongly with this. The problem with online events
> is that they are not special. For one thing there are so many of them.
> For another you can convince yourself that you can just look at the
> video if you skip the meeting. For a third attending such a meeting is
> yet more time you are spending looking at a screen.

Yet there are people who only post static youtube videos and get
engagement with thousands of comments.

The "comments" we could have with this mailing list should be far
higher quality than most youtube comments.

Is "attendance" a big thing when it comes to virtual meetings, when
there is video and the possibility of discussion afterward?

The presentations will not drive attendance.  It's what you get with
a bunch of people all in the same place at the same time that drives
that.  What can we change about the virtual meetings that would give
something special to those who show up, that just can't happen otherwise?

I mean, it's possible to have a virtual "after party" that
is not recorded. :-)

Just my $0.02,
- Chris