[Internal-cg] Next call Sep 26, 12:00-13:00 UTC

[Alissa Cooper]

I’m fine with rotating conference call times. I like Keith’s suggestion
that we just choose 3 times and stick with them on rotation, rather than
polling each time, perhaps with caveats for when a document editor or
discussion leader is unavailable at the planned time and the call would be
much less productive without that person.

If possible, I think it would make sense to avoid choosing a rotation
where we might lose a significant portion of the group on every third call
— e.g., in summer I think we have a sizable number of participants in
UTC+1/2/3, and also UTC-4, so it might not make sense to have one of the
three times start at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning for those folks. I
*think* a 4:00/12:00/20:00 UTC rotation or something similar mostly avoids
this, but people should correct that if it’s wrong …

Alissa

On 8/25/14, 6:30 AM, "WUKnoben" <wolf-ulrich.knoben at t-online.de> wrote:

>I agree in sharing the "pain".
>
>The issue was discussed discussed several times on GNSO council, and the
>secretariat sent me the following information about alternating times
>that 
>have been found acceptable: 11:00 UTC, 15:00 UTC., and 20:00UTC which was
>later changed to 18:00UTC.
>We have found that alternating among 3 time zones, like the Board does as
>well, shared the pain of awkward meeting hours and if the meeting dates
>are 
>set well in advance, like the Council dates for one year, people do not
>get 
>confused. We have never had the case where someone has not been to a
>meeting 
>because they 'did not know/were confused'.
>In addition we do not change the UTC times for the winter and summer
>times, 
>we send out timely warning of the time change in each zone.
>
>Best regards
>
>Wolf-Ulrich
>
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