Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 12/2/2012 8:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>> I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor
>>>> management discipline.
...
>>> people are adults
...
> ...there is a high road, let's
> take it.


A series of glib catch-phrases are certain not to facilitate meaningful 
discussion, any more than does treating the use of particular 
technologies as a problem.

The question put forward was serious and relevant.  It warrants serious 
response.

Microphones introduce a consideration to the process, but then so does 
the 'presence' of remote participants.  It's not that difficult to 
manage the room productively given these realities.  Chairs do it all 
the time.

The discipline they impose varies, but, for example, a per-participant, 
random interpretation in the style of "do whatever you think is the 
adult behavior" isn't one of the choices.  They /manage/ the process.

In very small scale, with a few active participants who share the same 
meeting management model, the chairs have a particularly easy time.  But 
let's not confuse that with an amorphous "act like adults" reference.

d/


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  Dave Crocker
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