On 02/11/2013 10:46 PM, Bob Hinden wrote:
Keith,
On Feb 11, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 02/05/2013 11:04 AM, IETF Chair wrote:
3.4. Slide Sharing
Slides are often sent by email in advance of the meeting.
WebEx allows the slides and desktop applications to be viewed by the
remote participants. These are controlled by the presenter. The
presenter can be shifted from participant to participant as needed.
Can we *please* discourage the habit of treating IETF WG meetings as one series
of PowerPoint presentations after another? This makes the meetings much less
productive.
The notion that there are supposed to be slides for each presentation, is IMO,
a huge error.
I disagree. The slides are a great help for non-native english speakers.
Let me back up a bit, because I don't think I stated my case strongly
enough.
WG meetings should not, in general, be used for presentations. They
should primarily be used for discussions. Presentations are largely a
waste of precious WG time.
It is sometimes possible to prepare slides to help facilitate
discussions. But more often than not, the exercise of preparing slides
encourages the speaker to fill up most or all of the available time with
presentation material, leaving insufficient time for discussion of
important questions.
I certainly agree that when presentations are made, the slides can be
helpful to those who aren't so fluent in English. My point is that
presentations should be made only rarely.
Keith