<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am doing this too, but I worry: past history is that the first day or two of the IGF the Internet can be less than reliable. If we have many remote presenters because of this unreasonable expectation of advance notice and they can't present, what will events be like?<div><br></div><div>Still what can you do.</div><div><br><div><div>On 17 Jul 2013, at 13:03, Ginger Paque <<a href="mailto:ginger@paque.net">ginger@paque.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>NO! Definitely not official--that is my own personal suggestion. For our workshop, I found that my preferred discussants could not always confirm they would be in Bali. So I asked them to confirm they would participate--and that if they could not be in Bali physically, that they would join us remotely. For me, this was a way to confirm my panel participants, even though they did not yet have funding to travel to Bali. Chengetai did confirm that this is a viable option and that remote presenters will have tech support.<br>
</div>Best, Ginger<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 July 2013 02:23, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chaitanyabd@gmail.com" target="_blank">chaitanyabd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Ginger is that an official proviso - as I don't remember it being there in the original request for proposals. Maybe I'm wrong?</div>
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-C<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Ginger Paque <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ginger@paque.net" target="_blank">ginger@paque.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
with the proviso that they will present remotely if they cannot be in Bali.</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></div>
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