I’m fine with rotating conference call times. I like Keith’s suggestion that we just choose 3 times and stick with them on rotation, rather than polling each time, perhaps with caveats for when a document editor or discussion leader is unavailable at the planned time and the call would be much less productive without that person. If possible, I think it would make sense to avoid choosing a rotation where we might lose a significant portion of the group on every third call — e.g., in summer I think we have a sizable number of participants in UTC+1/2/3, and also UTC-4, so it might not make sense to have one of the three times start at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning for those folks. I *think* a 4:00/12:00/20:00 UTC rotation or something similar mostly avoids this, but people should correct that if it’s wrong … Alissa On 8/25/14, 6:30 AM, "WUKnoben" <wolf-ulrich.knoben@t-online.de> wrote:
I agree in sharing the "pain".
The issue was discussed discussed several times on GNSO council, and the secretariat sent me the following information about alternating times that have been found acceptable: 11:00 UTC, 15:00 UTC., and 20:00UTC which was later changed to 18:00UTC. We have found that alternating among 3 time zones, like the Board does as well, shared the pain of awkward meeting hours and if the meeting dates are set well in advance, like the Council dates for one year, people do not get confused. We have never had the case where someone has not been to a meeting because they 'did not know/were confused'. In addition we do not change the UTC times for the winter and summer times, we send out timely warning of the time change in each zone.
Best regards
Wolf-Ulrich
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