That may work as well. It depends on the time that the presenters have to make the material available. The important is to have discussion-material available in advance. It could be a presentation or a video (I would personally prefer a presentation because I can quickly scan it for important things) Regards, as On 7/28/13 3:01 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > Why not put the presentations up on YouTube as podcasts. That way people > can watch them before starting off for the meeting. > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:arturo.servin@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > I agree with Randy. > > Presentation material, documents, etc. should be available > in advance > at least 1 or 2 weeks before the IETF (not 2 hours, not 2 days) and to > support the discussion (not to be presented). People in the meeting > should have read it (draft and slides) and be prepared to discuss the > draft, not to learn about it as we are doing now. > > F2F meetings should be about discussions, no presentations. > > We could try something like this: > > A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings > > https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130701022638-22330283-a-simple-rule-to-eliminate-useless-meetings > > (I have never done it, but it seems interesting). > > Regards, > as > > On 7/28/13 6:13 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > >> I would be very sorry to see IETF *working* meetings turned into > >> something closer to conferences, or to dumbing things down to > >> accommodate newcomers who I gather from discussion so far don't have > >> anything particular in mind. > > > > yup. i guess it is time for my quarterly suggestion to remove the > > projectors and screens. > > > > randy > > > > > > > -- > Website: http://hallambaker.com/