changing things a little.
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 5 22:56:53 UTC 2004
Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Madison Kelly wrote:
>
>>Seeing as I am up next (everyone come!!!) I'll throw my approval in. I
>>would love a more "group" part instead of just the lecture thing. Maybe
>>instead of doing a talk (in my case, on firewalls and iptables) instead
>>we can sit arounf and have one person (me!! :) ) field questions on the
>>topic and others could jump in when the "host" gets stumped.
>
>
> A word of caution: many people are less enthusiastic about coming to a
> meeting that's billed as a Q&A session rather than a talk, because it's
> harder to tell whether the content will interest them. It's better to
> start with a talk, to give newcomers to the topic some context and to
> deal with the elementary issues, and then do Q&A afterward.
I for one, would definitely prefer that all the questions and comments
be held until *AFTER* the presentation. The current practice tends to
shred what would otherwise be a coherent presentation.
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