clear link to previous minutes from Dan Connolly on 2002-08-27 (www-webont-wg@w3.org from August 2002) (original) (raw)

I'm updating the WG home page; among other things, indexing the telcon minutes.

Ideally, this is an easy job: I just find any recent meeting record, and it will have a link to the previous meeting record, under the 'admin: review of minutes' item.

But unfortunately, many of our meeting records don't have that, so this is taking a while.

So please, when we review the minutes, make a clear pointer to what we're reviewing. It should be easy: there should be a bit in the agenda you can just copy; e.g.

| 1.2) Minutes August 1 telecon | | PROPOSED to accept the following as a true record: | http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Aug/0021.html

Please make sure any documents discussed in the meeting are cited (by URI, title, date, and author, preferably).

Always cite the agenda too; sometimes that will make up for missing citations in the meeting record.

I believe I have given this tip before; it's in the W3C guidebook, under meetings: http://www.w3.org/Guide/#Meetings

In particular, the "Quick and Dirty Minutes" item:

[[ I have an additional request: put a reference (the date and the URI of the record) to the previous meeting in each agenda and/or meeting record. Referencing today's meeting in next meeting's agenda is one way for the chair to "approve" the minutes; s/he can note/reference corrections at the same time.

Plus, you get a quick-and-dirty hypertext decision record: if you find a recent meeting, you can follow the path into the past. ]]

-- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

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