Re: Gather.town hour every month?

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

FWIW ...

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:40 PM Rob Wilton (rwilton) <rwilton=
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> I think that what you propose is a good idea.  Or at least, it is worth
> trying to see what happens.
>

I also like Carsten's suggestion. What follows is one thing we could do,
within the scope of his suggestion (we could do other things as well, of
course).


> The timezones issue is of course tricky.
>
> For a given 'day', I would suggest that we organize 3 sessions 8 hours
> apart, and then folks can join one or more depending on their time zones.
> E.g., perhaps something like 2am, 10am, & 6 pm UTC.
>

I've ended up as a co-chair in ART, and a couple of IETFs ago, the ART ADs
had a gathering for the ART chairs, that was scheduled very much like you
suggested (observing that the ART chairs spanned the globe, so three
sessions with start times at about 8 hour intervals, lasting a couple of
hours each). So there's at least prior art about that.

Somewhat counterintuitively, I was on two of those three slots (and I think
others were on more than one slot, as well). So ISTM that there are people
who want to talk to people outside their preferred timezone, if it's not
too painful. Perhaps that would be easier, if the three slots weren't back
to back on the same day.


> I would probably try and keep it at the same weekday/times each month,
> since that is easier to put in a calendar.
>
> Sending out a reminder the day before may also encourage participation.
>

I also note that we didn't have a HotRFC session for IETF 110, which I've
found VERY helpful in moving new work proposals forward. I wonder if having
monthly HotRFC sessions between IETF meetings would be better than trying
to cram them in just before/during IETF meetings.

Best,

Spencer