Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:45:27AM -0400, Kathleen Moriarty wrote:
> I've just had other obligations, although the one time I was on it was
> great.  It may be useful to have regular meetup times where people know to
> go and chat throughout the year.  Maybe weekly and targeted at time zone
> convenient/changing times.

+1

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.

When I've attended physical meetings, the workday goes from 8AM or so
(breakfast, 9AM meetings) to around 11PM or midnight even (dinner,
"dinner BoFs", "bar BoFs", hallway meetings, catching up with $WORK,
etc.).  That's a 16 hour day considering that even just social events
(eg lunch) generally involve work in some fashion.  There's no way to do
10 of 16 hours on an 8 hour TZ phase difference.

We might want to consider spreadign remote-only meetings over two weeks
instead of one.

Nico
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