CW21 Venue¶
Zoom was used as the main workshop venue, please see CW21 Infrastructure for an extensive list of the platforms used to organise and run CW21.
- Capacity
- The main plenary Zoom room’s capacity was 300, sufficient to fit the limit of 150 registrants.
- Five additional Zoom accounts with a minimum capacity of 100 were used for the parallel sessions.
- The facility to easily create and manage breakout rooms supported the event requirements.
- Additional platforms with sufficient capacity to support virtual networking were used as part of the social programme (RemotelyGreen, GatherTown and Mozilla Hubs).
- Areas that support additional event requirements
- Zoom breakout rooms were created to facilitate the Icebreaker session, Discussion session, Collaborative Ideas session, Networking session, and Hack Day.
- Zoom breakout rooms were additionally created for break spaces, quiet spaces, sponsor booths, video interviews, and side conversations/meetings.
- Location
- Having a virtual meeting allowed people to attend from locations around the world.
- Infrastructure
- See CW21 Infrastructure.
- Accessibility
- Having a virtual meeting allowed for greater accessibility.
- Otter.ai integration with Zoom allowed for live transcription and captioning.
- Environmental sustainability considerations
- Having a virtual meeting allowed for greater environmental sustainability due to the lack of travel, printed materials, and catering.