Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020, Nico Williams wrote:
> > Also, maybe we need scheduled hallway meetups during other weeks as
> > well, because if one's TZ offset to the meeting's is large enough, it's
> > just too difficult to spare 10 hours a day to the meeting and hallway
> > meetings.
> 
> For me, I noticed that after my early morning start and having a few
> meetings behind my laptop, I just need to have a break and leave my
> house, catch some sun and a coffee. So that means I'm not available in
> the "coffee time slots". I can't see myself doing 3h of meetings, 30
> minutes of "still behind my laptop chatting with people", followed by
> 3h of meetings.

Right, so, 16 hour meeting days for remote-only meetings won't happen.

> > We might want to consider spreadign remote-only meetings over two weeks
> > instead of one.
> 
> Please don't :)
> I can mark a week as "IETF week" and my collegues know I'm mostly
> gone/busy, but extending that to two weeks would not work. It would
> result in me not being able to drop most non-IETF work, and it would
> be harder for me to be seen as "busy at IETF". So regular work would
> interfere and expect precedence over my IETF meetings.

If it's two-hours a day for hallway meetings it'd be workable.

Anyways, feel free to propose alternatives.