ietf
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Barely literate minutes

2012-11-28 15:36:34
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 11/28/12 4:28 AM, SM wrote:
Hi John,

[subject line mutated to reflect topic being discussed]

At 01:25 28-11-2012, John C Klensin wrote:
This is, IMO, a consequence of our developing fancy tools and 
then uncritically relying on them.  A Jabber log or real-time 
Etherpad may be, and probably is, a very helpful way to keep 
real-time notes within a meeting but some WGs have substituted 
nearly-unedited versions of them (especially the latter) for 
minutes.  They are not minutes, certainly not minutes as

Yes.

Nobody likes to write minutes.  Very few people volunteer their
free time to do them...

IMHO it is the chairs' responsibility to listen to the audio recording
and produce minutes from that (or at least check the scribe's minutes
against the audio recording). I've done this in the past (full
disclosure: not always) and it is a lot of work.

Peter

- -- 
Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/

iEYEARECAAYFAlC2g8QACgkQNL8k5A2w/vxDFACgnuyRJALETl7djVtK2kjQkzzK
MVoAoJJcQcVA5jmk6UJg28DfFcPLlqRi
=9cgO
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----