ineffective use of meeting time

[Basavaraj.Patil at nokia.com]

Effective use of WG meeting time is something that WG chairs
should be trained on. For example we spend at least an average
of 10 minutes giving a status update of WG documents. I think 
the status is already known before the WG meeting and simply
putting the status of the WG documents at some URL is sufficient.
Some of the WGs that have a large number of WG documents take
up valuable time from the agenda with no real feedback received
as a result of the status update. 
But I do agree that it is sometimes valuable to have presentations
that help the WG make progress. Again I think this is something
that chairs should have a say on and be able to determine.

-Basavaraj

> 
> Keith-
> 
> I agree with you frusteration but I also think that a short
> presentation is useful for focusing the group on the topic at hand to
> get a more useful discussion.  If you want to have disussion on a
> bunch of topics...
> 
> --aaron
> 
> Keith Moore wrote:
> > I just realized that the problem-statement WG is currently 
> providing a 
> > very good example of one of our biggest problems with the way we do 
> > work:
> > 
> > we have precious little face-to-face meeting time.  despite 
> this, we 
> > spend the vast majority of our meetings in presentations of 
> material 
> > that could (in most cases) easily be published as 
> internet-drafts and 
> > read by participants at other times.
> > 
> > the one thing we can do in meetings that we can't do online 
> is discuss 
> > things face-to-face, and take advantage of the increased 
> fidelity and 
> > bandwidth of communication in meatspace.  this is often incredibly 
> > useful for reducing dissent and promoting closure. but when 
> we try to 
> > do this in meetings, we are told that the agenda is full 
> with speakers 
> > and that we are already behind schedule.
> > 
> > Keith
>