Re: A concept resurrected(?) - WG secretary?

[Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com>]

That's a really good point.  My complaints with my WG's
minutes usually happened sometime after the fact -- when
I was trying to back up a point later on the mailing
list, but couldn't reference anything solid in the meeting
minutes :-) (even though I had my mental version of what
had been relevant).

Perhaps a few key things:

	. define the value of minutes in terms of "whatever
	  happened..." and write that in WG procedures

	. make it clear that the community needs and wants
	  these things, most often with some latency from the
	  meeting itself

	. have someone who wasn't at the meeting review the
	  early draft of the minutes to see what they 
	  communicate without context



Leslie.



john.loughney@nokia.com wrote:
> Hi Leslie,
>
>
> > So -- if you had to live with the fact that "whatever happened
> > in the room, it doesn't count if it isn't in the minutes", what
> > problems do you have to creating such minutes, and how can
> > we solve them?
>
>
> The minutes of my WG are not stellar by any stretch of the
> word.  However, noone has ever complained.  I don't think
> that is a good thing, though.  It might be helpful if my
> AD would repremand me when the minutes are inadequate.  It
> would be good for folks on the mailing list to complain
> if they cannot make heads or tails of the minutes.  If these
> types of things do not happen, then its easy to see
> why WG chairs just go with the flow.
>
> John


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