On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Bob Braden wrote: > *> working group can often take better minutes than an outsider. On the > *> other hand, it is very hard to take good minutes and/or scribe while > *> participating in the discussion, and often the minutes will suffer for > *> those portions of the meeting where the minute-taker also wants to > *> join into the discussion. (Or stand in line at the mike, etc.) > > In any of the WG meetings I have attended in the last 10 years, it would > not have been hard to find a person in the room who was not participating > in the discussion. In fact, 95-99% of the people in the room were > non-participants and were therefore potential note takers. You fail to grasp the fundamentally non-participatory role of the non-participant. L. this the same 95-99% staring blankly at their laptops? <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>