[iaoa-education] default meeting time and next meeting == RE: Doodle poll for new default/regular meeting times of IAOA EduTC

[Maria Keet]

Dear All,

For the Wednesdays, I clicked that only because I anticipate your 
daylight saving time (which we don't have), and normally would have to 
leave by 17:15 SAST latest, so I agree the later option would be better.

Looking at the numbers, more people can make it for Wednesday than 
Tuesday, so I'd propose for either the 10th or 17th. In case it matters 
for deciding: there are currently ongoing items on the agenda, not 
urgent ones with deadlines:
- ISAO'18 report
- planning for the next ISAO 2020 in Bolzano: by when to finalise the PC 
chairs and General chair? Start looking already?
- wiki term list updates
- the new pub quiz questions

Regards,
Maria

On 08/10/2018 3:49, Frank Loebe wrote:
> Dear Maria, Zena and all,
>
> by now it is somewhat instructive to have a look at the Doodle poll 
> [1] again - thanks to all participants so far!
>
> The two most promising options are these slots:
> (1) Wednesdays, 09:30 EDT / 14:30 BST / 15:30 CEST/SAST
> (2) Wednesdays, 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST/SAST
>
> There is the issue that with a 90-min-slot we'd miss either Maria 
> during the last 30 min of option (2) or Todd during the first 30 min 
> of option (1). Might it thus be worth to consider planning for just a 
> 60-min-slot, starting at the later times of option (2)?
>
>
> Regarding our next meeting (and my own constraints):
>
>   --> We should decide whether to meet in the week starting on Oct 08
>       or in the week starting on Oct 15, for an October meeting.
>
> Assuming we'd try one of the two time slots above on a Wednesday, 
> i.e., either Wed, Oct 10, or Wed, Oct 17, I need to say for myself 
> that I'm already blocked on this particular Wed, Oct 10, during the 
> whole afternoon (CEST/SAST), and thus cannot participate on that date, 
> unfortunately. (But further, meanwhile I could not even offer Tue, Oct 
> 09, nor Fri, Oct 12, either.) Wed, Oct 17, would still work for me.
> However, if Maria, Zena and most of us can join on Wed, Oct 10, I 
> certainly do not wish to stand in the way (and would try to catch up 
> on matters afterwards).
>
> NB: Any decision before Mon, Oct 08, 06:00 EDT/11:00 BST/12:00 
> CEST/SAST can still make it into this month's IAOA event newsletter - 
> just to mention, though it's a little tight, admittedly.
>
> Thanks in advance for any views and comments,
> best regards,
> Frank
>
>
> [1] https://doodle.com/poll/bp9fyifc4rxkgw9z
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From:    Frank Loebe <frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
> Sent:    2018.10.04 15:12 +0200
> To:      IAOA Education Committee <iaoa-education at ovgu.de>
> Subject: [iaoa-education] Doodle poll for new default/regular meeting 
> times of IAOA EduTC
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> during the last meeting we intended to try to determine a new default 
>> slot for meetings of the IAOA Education Committee, a.o. to allow for 
>> wider participation.
>>
>>    --> Please find at [1] a corresponding Doodle poll - and participate.
>>
>>        [1] https://doodle.com/poll/bp9fyifc4rxkgw9z
>>
>> Your answer should apply to a prototypical 1st weekday of the month, 
>> for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. I have excluded Monday 
>> completely, because all those time slots investigated so far overlap 
>> with the bi-weekly Executive Council meetings on Mondays.
>>
>> As the current default time of 1st Tuesday of the month has passed 
>> this week already, the October meeting shall be held during next 
>> week, ideally at the newly determined time slot. But for now, please 
>> declare your availability for the default case. In doing so, it will 
>> be most helpful if you keep strict unavailability (red) to a minimum 
>> and express preferences by "Yes" (green) vs. "Yes, if necessary" 
>> (yellow).
>>
>> An announcement for next week shall follow soon. If you have any 
>> times that should work in general, but won't work next week, please 
>> record them in the Doodle poll as comments.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Frank
>
>
>
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