Re: LDP Scribe duty documentation

Salut Olivier,

I understand and I think difficulty understanding the language is a valid 
reason to be excused from taking minutes. If anyone is in that position 
they can just say so and we'll accommodate their request.

Language has always been a known barrier to participating in this kind of 
group. It's not specific to W3C of course and the W3C has certainly been 
aware of this for as long as I can remember.

I wish people could indeed speak slower but realistically I don't think 
you can expect  that to happen or, at least, to last. My experience is 
that it's just bound to get forgotten as soon as a real conversation gets 
going. It's not ill intended, it's just natural even if unfortunate. 
Hopefully, enough of what we do is in writing that people can still 
participate in a meaningful way.

Regards. I look forward to the bouchon. :-)
--
Arnaud  Le Hors - Software Standards Architect - IBM Software Group


Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> wrote on 08/28/2012 
04:37:21 AM:

> From: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>
> To: Arnaud Le Hors/Cupertino/IBM@IBMUS, 
> Cc: public-ldp-wg@w3.org
> Date: 08/28/2012 04:37 AM
> Subject: Re: LDP Scribe duty documentation
> 
> 
> Bonjour Arnaud,
> 
> Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@us.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > As we've been saying we all share the responsibility of recording to 
the 
> > best of our ability decisions and key discussion points made during 
our 
> > calls. To that end we manage a list of scribes in a round robin 
manner. 
> > http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/wiki/Scribes
> >
> > I realize that some of us aren't really familiar with what it takes to 
do 
> > so and don't know much anything about the machinery provided to us by 
the 
> > W3C to help us perform this task. The good news is that these tools 
can 
> > make this task much easier but they do require some learning.
> >
> 
> May I add a remark here : I think that it's hard for non-native english
> speakers to act as a scribe, when audio quality ain't so good, and
> native speakers tend to discuss complex / subtle matters. It's so easy
> to understand the contrary of what is said :-(
> 
> So... I wouldn't like to have to become a scribe, myself, for instance.
> 
> In this respect, the discussions on the ML should be a priority over
> phone meetings, IMHO (unless the W3C habits are the opposite).
> 
> Also, please, guys, try to speak as slowly and understandably as
> possible (yes, even some british accents are sometimes hard for the
> american dudes ;).
> 
> Juste mes deux cents as a french man ;)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> P.S.: in any case, I'll have my revenge in Lyon when I can order
> specialties for you in a /Bouchon/ [0]
> 
> [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouchon
> -- 
> Olivier BERGER 
> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
> Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
> Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
>