Re: Remote participation

To each his own I suppose.  You wouldn't like notes-in-jabber either for the same reasons.

I always copy the agenda into the Etherpad at the beginning.  That's my outline.  As I always have the tools
agenda open on my laptop, it's one click, select all, copy/paste.  Convenient enough for me, but I wouldn't
object if it was automatic.

Brian

On May 22, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:

> The question of tools and techniques for taking/organizing minutes should perhaps be considered separately.
> 
> I made one experimental try at Etherpad that didn't go well. And we had a notes taker in CLUE try it, which
also went badly. I don't consider that definitive - maybe we just needed a better version/deployment
and/or better advanced practice.
> 
> But Etherpad doesn't currently fit well with my working techniques for notes taking. I always found it
hard to keep up when taking notes - I would want to capture who was presenting (if I didn't already know) and
the doc they were discussing, but often couldn't get it off the first slide before they moved on. So for a few
years now I have been preparing a notes template before hand for each meeting, with extracts from the
agenda for each session I intend to attend. That way I only need to add to that with points made or blow by blow.
> 
> If that was viewed as a generally useful technique then etherpad could be pre-primed in every session. But
if not it would be inconvenient to do on the fly.
> 
> The other thing is that when taking notes I often write some observations that are for me, but that I
wouldn't want to share with the world. If I'm official scribe then I extract my notes for the session and
"sanitize" them before sending on. If I were using etherpad I would be inhibited from capturing those
private observations for myself.
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