IMHO, The presenters are MUST, but the time channel for presenting is the problem or boring factor. I mentioned before that we need short presentations 5 minutes, and more discussions.
AB On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Keith Moore <mo...@network-heretics.com>wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Bob Braden wrote: > > > On 7/30/2013 9:35 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > >> > >> Easy fix: 'slide' (well, nobody uses real slides anymore :-) rationing. > >> > >> E.g. if a presenter has a 10 minute slot, maximum of 3 'slides' > >> (approximately; maybe less). That will force the slides to be > 'discussion > >> frameworks', rather than 'detailed overview of the design'. > >> > >> Noel > > > > Noel, > > > > I tried the 3 slide limit in the End2end Research Group some years ago, > and it did not work very well. > > Presenters just can't discipline themselves that much, no matter how > hard you beat on them. > > Maybe the first step is to stop having "presenters". > > Keith > >