On 02/11/2013 08:34 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
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.
So what you're arguing for is better slides, more time devoted to
discussion, and WG leaders taking a more active role in making sure that
those 2 things happen.
In other words, the same 3 conclusions we came to the last several times
this topic has been discussed.
So how about the people who are interested in this topic put their
effort into helping to make those things happen instead of rehashing the
discussion again.
Doug