Fair enough. By the way, this was in no way meant as a critizism of the scribe or minutes takers, they did a great job. On Aug 2, 2013, at 12:24, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Or eat less cookies. :) > > Now, seriously. I think in your case, it was just bad luck to chair to > meetings one after the other. > > For the rest, taking punctuality more seriously would help. > > As you said, time is scarce and I prefer to use it in meetings than in > breaks. > > my 20 cents, > as > > On 8/2/13 10:28 AM, Ulrich Herberg wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I chaired two afternoon sessions on Thursday, and I think that the 10 >> minutes break between the sessions were not enough. Not only had I to >> rush to the other room to set up my laptop etc., but also the scribes >> and minutes takers that have volunteered for the second session were >> not yet there (they arrived about 5 minutes after meeting start), so >> that I had to find new volunteers at the beginning of the meeting. I >> know that the available meeting time is very sparse, but having 20 >> minutes between meetings could avoid that. >> >> Ulrich >>