Re: Remote Participation Services

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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.




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