--On Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:49 PM -0700 Danny McPherson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It did indeed seem that the significant majority of
> time was spent 'viewing presentations/tutorials',
> while the WG chairs frequently employed RED/discard
> on the folks that occupied the queues at the
> microphones in order to more promptly begin the
> next tutorial and finish within the alloted time.
>
> This is unfortunate, as the main idea behind meeting
> is to hash out design issues, not to get overly
> verbose presentations that typically aren't required
> by those that read the drafts.
Just some personal thoughts...
FWIW, I suggested to a couple of WG/BOF chairs last week that,
if they _must_ have presentations (and I really like Pete
Resnick's idea), they consider insisting on
(i) Getting the materials in advance
(ii) Consolidating all of the presentations onto a single
machine, to be controlled by the Chair.
(iii) Warning presenters that the presentations will be
appropriately "accelerated" if they contain too much
marketing hype, drift off-topic, or go wandering into the
weeds.
I would also favor equipping Chairs with long poles with hooks
at the end for dragging performers offstage, or at least on/oiff
switches for microphones :-)
I think we have several different problems that are reinforcing
each other, but we can probably attack at least some of them
even if we don't have comprehensive solutions.
john
