On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote:
I prefer the format where people discuss than the one that one lectures, and the others listen (which is suggested by having a "fixed" program).
The pdmtl#36 meeting yesterday was an example of a meeting with a "fixed" programme, that turned out to be quite interactive and quite improvised.
I think that this is a barrier that can easily broken (just because the programme has been written down, doesn't mean it can't turn into something a bit different), and in the end, the real force turning the programme into a fixed programme, is the total number of people. Yesterday we were only seven, and it was a lot more flexible than when we were twenty-three, for example.
| Mathieu Bouchard ------------------------------ Villeray, Montréal, QC