Re: Gather.town hour every month?

[Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, at 07:50, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 3/13/21 3:35 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Do an experiment. Run a meeting every 6 days (so in a few weeks we have an indication of the most popular days of the week) and run it one hour later each time (so that in a few weeks we have an indication of the most popular hours of the day).
> As above, but treat showing up for a meeting on a particular day of the 
> week at a particular time slot as if it were a vote indicating 
> preference for a meeting day (of the week) and time. Imagine that 
> everyone's individual vote (as expressed by attending a meeting) is 
> written on a piece of paper and placed in a (virtual) hat.   Then for 
> subsequent meetings, pull one of those pieces of paper out of that 
> virtual hat and hold the meeting on that day and time.   Discard votes 
> after N weeks of their being cast so that the votes continue to reflect 
> (nearly) current preferences.   That makes it "fair" in the sense that 
> everyone's preference is equally represented, though people with less 
> common preferences will get meetings in their favorite days/time zones 
> less often.
> 
> (bikeshedding is fun!)

CC: the diversity list.  Tyranny of the majority here we are again.

Bron.


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