Re: APAC call timing - continue or suspend?

Hi,

Personally, I appreciate the efforts to allow me and others around here 
to have some of our meetings during my normal waking hours. But that 
only works if most of the group is there. I am not especially interested 
in a meeting of APAC csswg members. What is interesting is a meeting of 
(most) csswg members, at APAC-compatible times.

If that's not happening, I have to reluctantly agree that the APAC timed 
calls are not succeeding, and that suspending them may be the right 
thing to do.

I will note that while having a call at APAC hours isn't sufficient to 
increase participation from people based in APAC, discontinuing it is 
likely to further raise barriers to participation from this region of 
the world.

—Florian

On 2024/11/07 10:11, Alan Stearns wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> When we started having APAC calls once a month, we had several more 
> members in Australia and Asia who depended on this timing (and 
> requests for more than one APAC call a month). Lately we have fewer of 
> these members calling in, and more people in Europe sending regrets. I 
> am wondering whether we should suspend the APAC calls for a while 
> unless/until we have need for them again.
>
> I expect the people sending regrets for the APAC calls would be OK 
> suspending the practice, so no need to reply if that is the case. I 
> would like to hear from people (either in a reply to the list or just 
> to me) who either rely on the APAC-timed calls or have intentions of 
> relying on that call timing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>