ineffective use of meeting time

[john.loughney at nokia.com]

Marc,

I think interuptions are OK, but what is not OK is rude,
unprofessional behavior, which is, unfortunately, very common.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Marc Blanchet [mailto:Marc.Blanchet at viagenie.qc.ca]
> Sent: 21 March, 2003 20:39
> To: Keith Moore; problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: ineffective use of meeting time
> 
> 
> I have to say that another problem of ietf is that people are always
> interupting people presenting. Often I saw people going to 
> the mike during
> a presentation, asking questions, making comments, that are 
> addressed in
> the next slide. I saw this many times again this week.
> Presentations could be much shorter if people stop 
> interupting, and let
> having a discussion at the end of the presentation.
> 
> my 2 canadian cents.
> 
> Marc.
> 
> -- vendredi, mars 21, 2003 12:59:35 -0500 Keith Moore 
> <moore at cs.utk.edu>
> wrote/a ecrit:
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
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