Re: [108attendees] Successful IETF 108

FWIW, perhaps we should rethink the traditional meeting agenda.

Today pretty much everyone does:

  *   Present the slides I published 24 hours before the meeting
  *   In the time left for my slot (little to none because agendas are usually full) entertain questions/discussion

Instead, don't present slides at all (still prepare/publish them - and have them available if needed for reference). Each "presenter" gets 10-15 minutes to simply take questions/have discussion - the interactive things that have added value when done "face-to-face".

This would use meeting time to do what cannot be done as easily "on the list".

People could still post video presentations if they wished - but I agree that production skills vary widely and I am not optimistic that prerecorded presentations on average would be any better than live ones on average.

What I want to address is the frustration many of us feel is when there is no time during the meeting for discussion. Without that, we might as well be sending email to the list.

To give people more time to review the slides, set a deadline for posting the slides similar to that for new drafts - say one week before the actual meeting.

(Admittedly many of us - myself included - might only look at the slides the morning of...but at least we would have the opportunity.)

   Les

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> > Recording video of even marginally useable quality is a huge

> > undertaking for most people.

>

> fwiw, most academic/research conferences went this path when the plague

> hit.  if a grad student can do it, you can too :)

>

> randy

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