[council] FW: Doodle IDNG call

[Avri Doria]

On 4 May 2009, at 09:54, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> We could add a 5th principle:  "where some participants have to  
> suffer unpleasant hours, we restrict meeting times to no more than  
> one hour."


Sometimes easier said then done.

E.g.  I would very much like to have council meeting be an hour long,  
and if we could more the schedule out to once a month, even better.

But there is much to discuss, and people do not tend to carry on  
discussions on the mailing list or any other medium.  Also we often  
have to approach topics more then once, because it takes a while to  
get all the constituency input.  So while I would like to schedule  
meetings with fewer topics or fewer status updates, it has proven  
difficult.
(BTW I have thought of asking for all status to be written beforehand,  
but we would still need time for questions, and besides I have often  
felt that the amount of required reading also has limited tolerance.)

One thing that I hope will help in time is if fewer council members  
need to be involved in the WG, and when have finished all of  
restructuring/"improvement" work.  But to shorten meetings, i firmly  
believe we need to resolve more issues on line.

Also defining Ridiculous/unpleasant times may be more difficult then  
one may think.  Some council participants, e.g. have questioned  
holding meeting during the evening hours when it is time for dinner  
and family, while for others those are the perfect hours.   And given  
the world spread, how may times do you count that meet the 12-5am  
barrier - i only see two.

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