Hi Dawn,
On 04/01/2011 08:31 PM, Foster, Dawn M wrote:
I wanted to let everyone know that we have a new time for our Technical Steering Group meetings. While the 20:00 UTC meetings were convenient for the Americas and Europe, it was very difficult for people in Asia to participate. The new TSG meetings will be on Thursdays at 06:00 UTC (Wednesday at 11PM Pacific), which puts the meetings in the early morning for Europe, late evening for the US and the middle of the day for Asia. The first meeting will be on April 14 at 06:00 UTC (April 13 11PM Pacific). You can view the meeting in your time zone here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=13&year=2011&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=202 More TSG meeting details can be found here: http://wiki.meego.com/Technical_Steering_Group_meetings
In the context of the responses from sjgadsby & Jeremiah, I just wanted to suggest one or two ideas:
First, is there a possibility we can avoid the need for real-time meetings altogether, and encourage asynchronous written communication on the appropriate mailing lists? It's been a while since the TSG has been required attendance on my calendar, for a few reasons - most of what happens in the TSG meetings looks like it could happen asynchronously (nomination/response/approval), so I can catch up on meeting minutes easily, and the agendas seem more information-oriented than decision/problem-solving oriented.
Second, if there is a concensus that real-time meetings are necessary, perhaps a rotating meeting time would work well? Simon Phipps once suggested an interesting meeting scheduling method: each core contributor in the meeting gets to pick the meeting time, in rotation, and it's announced in advance. That way if you have 3 Asian contributors, 4 Europeans and 3 North American core participants, the pain is shared.
Cheers, Dave. -- Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
