+1 AB On 16/02/13 08:04, Brian Carpenter wrote: > On 15/02/2013 20:57, Keith Moore wrote: > ... >> But this makes me realize that there's a related issue. An expectation >> that WG meetings are for presentations, leads to an expectation that >> there's lots of opportunity to present suggestions for new work to do. >> WG time scheduled for considering new work can actually take away time >> for discussion of ongoing work. And once the time is scheduled and >> people have made commitments to travel to meetings for the purpose of >> presenting new work, chairs are understandably reluctant to deny them >> their allotted presentation time. > > This is closely related to a well-known problem at academic conferences. > Many people can only get funded to travel if they are presenting a paper. > It's common practice, therefore, to have either a poster session (which > allows massively parallel presentations) or hot-topics sessions (with a > strict and very short time-limit). We tend to throw the hot-topics sessions > into WG meetings, which is not ideal. > > Why not have a poster session as part of Bits-n-Bites? It would give > new ideas a chance to be seen without wasting WG time. Make it official > enough that people can use it in their travel requests. > > Brian >