Re: Issues with minute taking

On Monday, July 6, 2009, 9:58:41 AM, Jonathan wrote:

JW> On 7/6/09 9:22 AM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan.

>> Jonathan Watt:
>>> There are two things that have been bugging me about minute taking:

>>>  1) only one person can be the scribe

>> You can switch scribe mid-session by doing

>>   ScribeNick: someonelse

JW> Yeah, but we rarely do this. And I'm thinking more about when the scribe misses
JW> something and someone else just wants to make sure that line is captured.

They can do so without being the scribe. Indeed its quite common to add further explanatory material inline by non-scribes.

>> and then that person can take over.

>>>  2) having to use regular expressions to correct the minutes is slow
>>>     (having to type both the text to remove, and the text to replace
>>>     it with) and tricky

>> It’s not the easiest, I agree, especially without feedback about what
>> substitution it will make.

The minutes do list which substitutions were made, at the end.
Its also possible to hand-edit a copy of the minutes and then use  the minutes script (perl) to create minutes. Or indeed to hand edit a copy of the minutes afterwards.

This can make better minutes, at the cost of delay. personally i would rather have slightly scrappy minutes published within, well, minutes of the close of the call.

>>> After our mishap with the bot last week causing Anthony to have to
>>> generate the minutes manually, 

Asking trackbot to start the meeting ensures that both zakim and rrsagent are present. Its good practice for the chair to check they are present, at the start.

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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
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Received on Monday, 6 July 2009 12:29:40 UTC