Re: Proposed change to Silver Tuesday calls

Thank you, everyone! Exactly why we wanted to email the list with a
proposal.

I made a survey for the schedule of Friday meeting
> <https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/94845/friday-meeting-schedule-2021-6/>.
> It has 9, 9:30 (as Wilco proposed) and the other hours of the day including
> the existing call time, 2:00 PM ET.


Thanks, Jeanne! I see hourly options 9 through 14 (current meeting time),
but not the 9:30am option that you mentioned.

-Shawn

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 8:38 PM Jeanne Spellman <
jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com> wrote:

> I would be in favor of moving the Friday Silver call earlier in the day.
> I worry about shutting out the US West Coast, but they have the Tuesday AG
> call at a more reasonable time for them (8:00am).  So they would get one
> call that is at a reasonable time and the Friday call at a stretch time
> (6:30 am).
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> I made a survey for the schedule of Friday meeting
> <https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/94845/friday-meeting-schedule-2021-6/>.
> It has 9, 9:30 (as Wilco proposed) and the other hours of the day including
> the existing call time, 2:00 PM ET.
> On 6/7/2021 5:44 AM, Wilco Fiers wrote:
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> Hey Shawn,
> I very much support having joint meetings with AG. But by cancelling the
> Tuesday meeting over the Friday meeting, both WCAG 3 meetings end up
> outside of EU work hours. I feel that WCAG 3 has a fairly strong US bias as
> it is. I think this decision is a turn in the wrong direction. I would ask
> the chairs to consider options that would allow for more international
> participation.
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> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:44 PM Shawn Lauriat <lauriat@google.com> wrote:
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>> All,
>>
>> In an effort to avoid having it buried in today's minutes, we wanted to
>> send out a separate note about a discussion we had today around meeting
>> schedules to check with those of you not on the call today about a
>> proposed change to cancel our regular 9:30am Eastern Tuesday calls while we
>> have joint calls with AG WG at 11:00am Eastern.
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>> We've recently had several joint AG WG + Silver calls on Tuesdays during
>> the regular AG WG time (11:00am - 1:00pm Eastern), and canceled the regular
>> Tuesday Silver calls when that has happened. Since we expect joint calls
>> for at least the foreseeable future (I think at least through June and
>> July), we proposed canceling our 9:30am Eastern Tuesday call for the
>> duration, with the option of holding it if something comes up that seems
>> like a good topic to work through during that time. As an example, we
>> know that Fridays at 2:00pm Eastern don't work very well for folks in
>> Europe, and even less well for those further east.
>>
>> We'll still keep the Zoom & IRC info available so that we can hold
>> Tuesday calls as-needed, though we certainly won't expect everyone to dial
>> into a nearly solid 3 hours of calls on those days, so definitely feel free
>> to prioritize topics of interest!
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>> Thanks,
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>> Shawn
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> *Wilco Fiers*
> Axe-core product owner - Facilitator ACT Task Force - Co-chair ACT-Rules
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