On 8/8/2013 7:53 AM, Scott Brim wrote:
Well, I've worked remotely for 16 years and in most meetings I don't get
to see the slides until the meeting starts. Usually I can only see them
via some conferencing tool. Sometimes I get a copy in mail the week
after. So I think the IETF is already doing pretty well at making
materials available, and insisting on getting slides far in advance of
the meeting is beyond what most people get in reality outside of the
IETF. I would call this a SHOULD not a MUST.
suspect Scott's experiences matches that of many of us, but let's
consider possible sampling bias here, which might limit the
applicability of that experience to the IETF...
There is a difference between being a native English speaker who is
already integrated into an on-going work effort, versus someone who
might be neither, as is often true for IETF meetings.
Informative slides that are available ahead of time can be extremely
helpful, for establishing the context of the presentation/discussion and
for outlining the main points.
For someone new to a topic or with language limitations, that can make
the difference between understanding the flow of speech, versus not.
So let's be careful about whether slides ahead of time need to be a
requirement, rather than being considered only a nice-to-have.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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