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Re: Barely literate minutes

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 28 November 2012 21:36 UTC

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On 11/28/12 4:28 AM, SM wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> [subject line mutated to reflect topic being discussed]
> 
> At 01:25 28-11-2012, John C Klensin wrote:
>> This is, IMO, a consequence of our developing fancy tools and 
>> then uncritically relying on them.  A Jabber log or real-time 
>> Etherpad may be, and probably is, a very helpful way to keep 
>> real-time notes within a meeting but some WGs have substituted 
>> nearly-unedited versions of them (especially the latter) for 
>> minutes.  They are not minutes, certainly not minutes as
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Nobody likes to write minutes.  Very few people volunteer their
> free time to do them...

IMHO it is the chairs' responsibility to listen to the audio recording
and produce minutes from that (or at least check the scribe's minutes
against the audio recording). I've done this in the past (full
disclosure: not always) and it is a lot of work.

Peter

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