ineffective use of meeting time

Bound, Jim Jim.Bound at hp.com
Sun Mar 23 22:46:18 CET 2003


This can be solved by saying no comments till the slides are over. Take notes.  And treat all EQUALLY if such rule existed.
/jim

 


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Blanchet [mailto:Marc.Blanchet at viagenie.qc.ca] 
>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:39 PM
>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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