Add suggestion about running a second jabber client?

[danyork]

It occurred to me that in the past when I have done heavy jabber scribing of a session I have occasionally ran into an issue where my jabber client had a problem and I was unable to write anything into the chat. Typically this has been an issue with connectivity to the jabber server (or the server having uptime issues). Once it was a problem with my chat client dying for some reason.

The challenge is that the jabber room then has no clue that I've had a technical problem and am no longer in the room. I've had people asking for a relay but I've not been able to answer.

My "solution" when I have been planning to do heavy jabber scribing has been to have two jabber clients running on my laptop. One is in the chat room and is the one I use. The other one is running on my laptop and is connected to a different jabber server. If the first one fails, the second one can join the chat room and be able to update the room or resume jabber scribing.

Obviously there are other "solutions", including:

• Going to the mic and saying on the audio stream that I'm having a challenge and asking someone else to help.
• Asking someone I know who is sitting nearby to help out in the room (or at least alert them).

But the question is whether adding the two-client "solution" to the draft is a worthwhile suggestion... or just something way too geeky to be added.

[stpeter]

I don't think it hurts to mention. Defense in depth. :-)

[stpeter]

Added a bullet point on this.