Re: Barely literate minutes

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 12/1/2012 6:40 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 11/29/2012 10:36 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
>> F2f meetings are explicitly managed, with significant control of the
>> room.  Mailing list exchanges are typically not managed at all.
>>
>> Given the difference, it's not surprising that one proves more
>> productive than the other.
>
> Please don't confuse "management" with "encouraging productivity". In
> Atlanta I witnessed several f2f WG meetings that were explicitly
> managed, and completely unproductive.
>
> (Hint: anytime the vast majority of a f2f meeting is devoted to
> presentations, it's almost certainly useless.  Even if there were
> occasions when participants were asked to hum.)


Please don't use individual exemplars to try to prove a general case.

The thread contained an assertion of /generally/ better exchanges f2f. 
I suggested some contributing factors in support of the claimed general 
case.

Many email exchanges go extremely well.  Many f2f go extremely poorly.

human behavior.  complicated.

group behavior.  more complicated.

belief is simplistic causes or outcomes would be silly.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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