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From: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com>
To: "Christer Holmberg" <christer(_dot_)holmberg(_at_)ericsson(_dot_)com>
Cc: "John C Klensin" <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>; "John Leslie"
<john(_at_)jlc(_dot_)net>;
<ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 11:44 PM
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Christer Holmberg <
christer(_dot_)holmberg(_at_)ericsson(_dot_)com> wrote:
Do we really need projectors during the WG sessions?
Most participants have laptops/tablets where they could watch the
slides.
...and the presenter should keep his/her eyes on the audience, not
the
slides :)
Not sure how big (if any) impact removing the projectors would have
on the
participation fee, but at least it would give a little more
flexibility
when it comes to finding suitable meeting rooms, as a projector is
not
required.
As with most other hotel charges, they are merely ways to conceal the
cost,
not ways to bring it down.
If technology worked reliably, I would have no trouble reading slides
on my
laptop. But lets face it, technology is rubbish. It took me a whole
meeting
session just getting Jabber working in Honolulu because the client I
had
been using had decided on an obnoxious upgrade policy which required
me to
replace it.
Since Open Office can't read Powerpoint slides whatever they claim,
getting
slides working on a machine is hardly a seamless user experience as
you
have to battle through the n x m compatibility matrix.
We have enough problems getting presenter's slides working.
That is my overriding memory of London, not just from Monday morning but
from whenever a WG Chair first encountered the projectors. The problem,
commonly, was one of aspect ratios, of the projector and laptop having
different views of what the representation should be. Somewhere, I have
a note of how long - 5 to 10 minutes - each of the sessions was late in
starting.
As a presenter myself, I was taught to rehearse and rehearse until it
all went off pat, and that included all the technology. Yet WG Chairs
would turn up at 09:00, e.g., and expect to have the 'Note Well' on
display by 09:01:-(
Tom Petch
Having done the usability thing back in the day, it is instructive to
ask a
UNIX/Windows/Mac sysadmin how easy they find a task they do every 3-4
months or so and then videotape them performing said task and then
play
the video back to them.