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Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-29 17:05:11

On Oct 29, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:

The single biggest thing that IETF could do to raise productivity in 
meetings is to remove video projectors from meeting rooms, replace them 
with white boards and pens, and ban use of PowerPoint and similar tools.

It's hard to get remote participants to see physical whiteboards, nor to 
view them in advance.

Advance availability of slides can also be helpful for the growing fraction 
of participants for whom English is not a native language.

If there's a desire for more than about ten "slides" per meeting, there's 
something seriously wrong with the meeting agenda.

But I do acknowledge that PowerPoint is a good tool for constructing outlines.  
So what people should do is take those slides, add comments to them, send the 
slides (in PDF) to the mailing list well before the meeting, and expect meeting 
attendees to have read them before the meeting.  The slides should not be shown 
at the meeting, except perhaps in the rare case that one of them contains a 
complex drawing that needs to be referred to.  (even then, it's pretty hard to 
make a decent drawing with PowerPoint.)

Keith

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