Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

sadly, too many of us remember writing on scrolls of acetate.  i
imagine that some remember stone and chisels.

ok, just for a gedanken experiment of one extreme,

  o remove the projector.  [ omg!  how will we show the note hell? ]

  o if there is an active draft that *really* needs f2f discussion,
    allocate time to discussing it.  if it does not *clearly* need
    face-time, discuss it on the mailing list.

  o no one is at the mic in front because there is no mic in front.

  o if folk really need to see a diagram, that is why the $dieties
    invented laptops.  the few people who do not have laptops have
    those new-fangled tablet thingies.

  o if someone has not read the draft, stay seated and shut up.

  o if someone wants to float a new idea worth describing, then give
    them five or ten minutes on the agenda to ask others for input,
    no preso/ppt.

randy

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Power corrupts; Powerpoint corrupts absolutely.  -- Vint Cerf