Re: 2021 Q2 Virtual Meeting Reflections

Hi Vincent, Reilly,

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.

I personally think the consecutive days with meetings strain perspective is important and needs to be taken into consideration when we plan our next virtual meeting for our globally distributed group. To put this in the broader context, the W3C Guidebook was recently revised with guidance for Dealing with timezones:

https://www.w3.org/Guide/meetings/organize.html

However, this perspective was not included so I opened an issue to establish a W3C-wide best practice for this. Please chime in with your suggestions:

https://github.com/w3c/Guide/issues/128

All - any other feedback, suggestions or reflections please share in this thread or with us organizers directly.

We're on a journey as we look for ways to collaborate in this new world in the most convenient and efficient way possible.

Have a nice weekend!

Thanks,

-Anssi

On 8. Apr 2021, at 23.20, Reilly Grant <reillyg@google.com<mailto:reillyg@google.com>> wrote:

+1 to this. Shorter meetings over multiple days was good but having meetings scheduled such that participants in some timezones didn't have time for a full night's sleep wasn't great.
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 9:34 AM Vincent Scheib <scheib@google.com<mailto:scheib@google.com>> wrote:
Thank you for organizing and facilitating the 2021 Q2 Virtual Meeting.  I believe it went quite well.

I'd suggest future meetings avoid consecutive days with meetings at the extreme end of the day.  In practice this would slow down the overall meeting speed, e.g. taking two weeks instead of one.  However I don't see a significant downside in that.  The upside is less fatigue and strain on participants.