Re: [93attendees] Meeting schedule

[Lixia Zhang <[e-mail]>]

> On Jul 20, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Randall Gellens <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> The meeting schedule, in my view, runs too late in the evening. Tonight's session ended at 7:50 PM, meaning it was 8:15 before one could even start trying to go to dinner.  This means it's 9:00 before one is able to eat, which in my view, is far too late.  I know people hated the old-old schedule that went until 10, but at least that had a dinner break at a 6:00, a reasonable hour; if we absolutely must go late, that was a better way to do it.  The schedule this time forces people to either try to sleep on a full stomach (which I can't do), skip dinner, or stay up way late and be sleep-deprived, fueled by caffeine and adrenaline (which I think makes for very bad meetings and bad technical work).

In the spirit of brainstorm, here is my 2 cents:

1/ if making the room arrangement is an issue, why dont we minimize this hassle by doing it once instead of twice?

i.e. running IAB and IESG plenary back-to-back.

2/ we can devote either one morning or one afternoon to it.
(I think morning would be better, so that there is lunch break to re-arrange the room; if afternoon, then there is still this issue of re-arrange the room quick so that we can have WG meetings after that).

3/ if morning but 2.5 hours looks a bit short: start at 8:30AM, and/or run to 12:00?
Given IETF covers breakfast one way or the other, this does not suffer from the food quality concerns as some people expressed regarding doing a plenary over lunch time.

Lixia

PS: haven't had time to read all the msgs on this thread, so forgive me if the idea is already mentioned.