Re: Audio streaming and slides suggestion

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu>]

On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 03:54:10 PM -0800 Paul Hoffman 
<paul.hoffman at vpnc.org> wrote:

> I am one
> of the people who was listening from afar last week, and the one
> presentation where the person didn't get his slides out in time was
> frustrating, but I certainly got some of the technical content without
> the visual context. I would have gotten more if I could see his slides,
> but that is not a good enough reason to tell him "no, you cannot speak
> without your slides on the web site, it's against the IETF rules", nor
> "you can speak but you can't use the slideware you have right there,
> because a few people listening remotely would be disadvantaged".

I was present at that session, and we wasted a certain amount of time
while the presenter tried to get his laptop working.  In the meantime,
not only could we not see the slides, but we couldn't hear the speaker,
either, because he wasn't speaking yet.  While the presentation did
happen after a couple of minutes delay, we could have used those minutes
at the end of the session during open mic, which in that particular
group is often lively.


To avoid precisely this phenomenon, both I and some other chairs I know
request that presenters make their slides available in advance, both so
we can put them up on the web and so we can have them pre-loaded on the
chair's laptop* (which s/he is presumed to have gotten working prior to
the start of the session).

While having up-to-the-minute slides available in advance isn't always
possible, we've found this approach to be extremely helpful.

-- Jeff



* Actually, when possible, we try to have a dedicated machine for
 presentations, so the chair doesn't have to give up the machine
 he's using for note-taking, previewing slides, watching jabber, etc.
 Typically one of us brings a machine which is used for this purpose
 in multiple WG's.



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