On 02/11/2013 10:23 PM, joel jaeggli wrote:
On 2/11/13 5:17 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 02/05/2013 11:04 AM, IETF Chair wrote:
3.4. Slide Sharing
Slides are often sent by email in advance of the meeting.
WebEx allows the slides and desktop applications to be
viewed by the
remote participants. These are controlled by the presenter. The
presenter can be shifted from participant to participant as needed.
Can we *please* discourage the habit of treating IETF WG meetings as
one series of PowerPoint presentations after another? This makes
the meetings much less productive.
The notion that there are supposed to be slides for each
presentation, is IMO, a huge error.
If you have prepared materials for your segment of the agenda they
should be available beforehand, full stop.
Agree. But perhaps "slides" are not, in general, the best kind of
preparation? Perhaps some brief notes consisting of a summary of the
discussion topic and the major points to be made (perhaps from multiple
points of view), with pointers to I-Ds or other relevant background
documents, would be more appropriate?
Perhaps instead of talking about "presentations", this document should
talk about "discussions"?
And perhaps instead of "Slide Sharing" the section should read something
like:
3.4. Sharing of Briefing Material
Each speaker is strongly encouraged to prepare material to brief meeting
participants about the topic to be discussed during his or her meeting
segment. Such a briefing should generally be less than two pages in
length, and contain a summary of the topic to be discussed. If there
are multiple points-of-view that need to be reconciled, the briefing
should attempt to capture these. When appropriate, the briefing should
also include URLs of background material, such as RFCs or
Internet-Drafts, that discussion participants should be familiar with.
Both local and remote meeting participants are strongly encouraged to
download and read such material prior to the meeting.
Such materials should be in a format that everyone can read, e.g. HTML,
or PDF.
If "slides" are used to provide visual aids for the discussion, these
should also be made available for download prior to the meeting, in PDF
format.