Re: There will be no TAG teleconference this week

On 3/12/2013 1:38 PM, Alex Russell wrote:
> I'm sad to hear this has been canceled. We haven't had a discussion in weeks.

TAG members are going to spend most of their week traveling and attending 
the F2F, and should be spending their time this week doing serious 
preparation. The tradition is therefore that we almost always cancel calls 
just before the F2F, unless there are specific problems settling the 
agenda. You should know that we sometimes but not always cancel the call 
after a F2F, for the same reason (I usual ask for preferences during the 
meeting). Yes, TAG members commit in principle 25% of their time to the 
TAG, but not 90%, and the F2F meetings are a big commitment. Also, I did 
announce on the call last week that this one would likely be cancelled 
unless we got requests to the contrary, and I don't think I got any.  I 
hope that makes sense.

Noah

Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:48:17 UTC