On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As with most other hotel charges, they are merely ways to conceal the cost, not ways to bring it down.Hi,
Do we really need projectors during the WG sessions?
Most participants have laptops/tablets where they could watch the slides.
...and the presenter should keep his/her eyes on the audience, not the slides :)
Not sure how big (if any) impact removing the projectors would have on the participation fee, but at least it would give a little more flexibility when it comes to finding suitable meeting rooms, as a projector is not required.
If technology worked reliably, I would have no trouble reading slides on my laptop. But lets face it, technology is rubbish. It took me a whole meeting session just getting Jabber working in Honolulu because the client I had been using had decided on an obnoxious upgrade policy which required me to replace it.
Since Open Office can't read Powerpoint slides whatever they claim, getting slides working on a machine is hardly a seamless user experience as you have to battle through the n x m compatibility matrix.
We have enough problems getting presenter's slides working.
Having done the usability thing back in the day, it is instructive to ask a UNIX/Windows/Mac sysadmin how easy they find a task they do every 3-4 months or so and then videotape them performing said task and then play the video back to them.