Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: Meeting time for first meeting SSN XG

I'm happy to make myself available for all these times.

Michael




On 02/04/2009, at 4:27 , Amit Parashar wrote:

> Dear Participants,
>
> I would like us all to be able to meet for the first meeting at least
> during the late time slot.  I know the timings are awkward for some of
> us more than others.  There are some other solutions available
> including:
> 1. having two meetings a week - accommodating for different time zones
> and then have the requirement for coordination between the two
> 2. having a much later meeting for Australia/Asia - 12 midnight, which
> generally gives a reasonable time slot for EU/US participants.
> 3. we can also have a rolling action item to discuss the date of the
> next meeting at the each meeting, therefore those who are going to
> come can decide.
>
> There are a number of options we could pursue, and we can discuss this
> at the meeting.
>
> With respect to the meeting, I think this week's time slot's are not
> getting full attendance, I suggest that we pick a day next week with
> the options being:
> 1. 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th of April at either 14:00 GMT, 15:00 GMT (12
> midnight / 1 AM Australia time)
> 2. 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th of April at either 8:00 AM GMT, 9:00 AM GMT -
> This would be a reasonable hour for everyone possibly including the US
> as it would be 5 AM/ 6AM East Coast time.
>
> My preference is for the GMT AM time slots, however our partners are
> Wright State will have log on a little earlier that morning :)  To
> check the time in your city, please click on the following URL and
> modify the dates.
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?year=2009&month=4&day=7&p1=31&p2=43&p3=57&p4=235
>
> The 10th is Easter (Good Friday) and a public holiday in many
> countries including Australia.
>
>  Regards,
>
> Amit
>
>
> On 01/04/2009, at 6:47 PM, Kevin R. Page wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 22:07 +0200, Victor Manuel Pelaez Martinez  
> wrote:
>> For the rest of the meetings I would prefer the morning options that
>> were presented last week because it would be difficult for me to
>> connect at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST it's a little bit late for me).
>
> As far as a regular meeting slot goes, obviously office hours local  
> time
> would be ideal. Going earlier, 07:30 local (06:30 GMT) onwards on
> weekdays is fine, but I suspect this won't work for our colleagues in
> the US.
>
> Weekdays are fine finishing up to 19:00 local (18:00 GMT), except
> Thursdays 17:00 GMT latest.
>
> If it has to be later in the evenings, some variation would help.
> Fridays evenings are regularly susceptible to weekend travel,  
> Thursdays
> are out except in August and September. Tuesdays would be best in July
> through September. Apart from that no evening is ideal if it's going  
> to
> be the same one for a year; I can prioritise the telecons with warning
> (>1 week), but variation would mitigate the inevitable clashes!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> -- 
> Kevin R. Page
> krp@ecs.soton.ac.uk      http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/krp
> Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia      University of Southampton, UK
>
>
>

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