On Oct 29, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Richard L. Barnes wrote: >>> The single biggest thing that IETF could do to raise productivity in meetings is to remove video projectors from meeting rooms, replace them with white boards and pens, and ban use of PowerPoint and similar tools. >> >> It's hard to get remote participants to see physical whiteboards, nor to view them in advance. > > Advance availability of slides can also be helpful for the growing fraction of participants for whom English is not a native language. If there's a desire for more than about ten "slides" per meeting, there's something seriously wrong with the meeting agenda. But I do acknowledge that PowerPoint is a good tool for constructing outlines. So what people should do is take those slides, add comments to them, send the slides (in PDF) to the mailing list well before the meeting, and expect meeting attendees to have read them before the meeting. The slides should not be shown at the meeting, except perhaps in the rare case that one of them contains a complex drawing that needs to be referred to. (even then, it's pretty hard to make a decent drawing with PowerPoint.) Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf