Hi Rob,
The US Wikimedians schedule our monthly online meetings via Doodle. The habit is that there is a monthly meeting scheduled the same way every month, although the days and times of meetings may vary.
This system has its own weaknesses but for our purposes it is working okay.
HTH,
Pine
On Oct 4, 2016 5:27 PM, "Rob Lanphier" robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
The thing that's been great about having ArchCom meetings at the same time and place has been that we've been able to make a habit out of having them. Because we're a global movement, there's never a good time for anyone, but the time we typically schedule for these was the best compromise we found for the ArchCom members.
The time of the meeting: Wednesday 2pm Pacific Time, which translates to:
- 23 CET/CEST most weeks
- 21 UTC during U.S. daylight savings time (northern hemisphere
spring/summer)
- 22 UTC during U.S. standard time (the northern hemisphere fall/winter)
- Possible confusion for people outside the U.S. when the time doesn't
align
The time seems to work well enough for ArchCom (the last time I asked). However, just because the time works for ArchCom members, doesn't mean it works for everyone in the world (and these are public meetings open to everyone). There have been suggestions that we rotate the timing of these. The challenge of that is that rotating meetings are a lot harder to make a habit out of.
My preference would be that we add additional times, keeping the current Wednesday time as the "main" meeting, but that we have adjunct meetings at different times with different target attendees. The
I'd be willing to facilitate multiple times (including times that suck for me personally), but another aspect that I'm hoping for is that the shepherds assigned to the ArchCom-RFC facilitates whatever meetings necessary to move things along.
Thoughts? Rob
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