Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

As an off-topic note, thanks to Alexa, Alexey, Jari, Lorenzo and the 
Meetecho team.
At 16:52 27-07-2013, Aaron Yi DING wrote:
> What do you mean by conference? too much information inferred in 
> your term that may confuse others on the list.  Will appreciate, if 
> you can share bit more on it, behind the single term "conference" 
> that you particularly don't like.
I took a quick look at some session agendas.  The common format is:

   - Name of draft

   - Presenter

That looks like a conference to me.  There will be the usual 
Powerpoint presentations.  People can object to that on this mailing 
list but the fact is that these presentations will happen.
> PS: things evolve, over the long term. it does not matter we like it 
> or not. that is how it is.
Yes.

At 00:33 28-07-2013, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> What about people who have difficulties understanding the speaker without some
> sort of context?
It helps to provide some context before discussing the issue.  I 
would not expect cross-area input if I do not provide 
context.  Sometimes it is difficult to understand the speaker.  The 
written form, for example slides, can help.
> What about being able to understand the problem that will be discussed before
> the session, so to cut on the "thinking out loud" on the microphone?
That is where the agenda can help.  The name of the draft does not 
tell me about the issues that will be discussed.
Regards,
-sm