Confirm/re-evaluate meeting times/schedule?

[ljharb]

During today's call, we talked briefly about whether the current meeting cadence/timing was meeting our needs. I have no personal opinion here - i'm happy to miss every other meeting for the sake of timezone equity :-) - but it seems useful to make sure that:

• everyone who wants to attend meetings regularly has convenient times to do so
• each meeting time is generating sufficient attendance so as to provide value to the group

If these are currently being met, no changes are needed.

Thoughts?

[mhdawson]

I'm ok with the current times, but being in EST it's easiest for me, we'll want the input from those at the far ends of the range.

[Eomm]

It would be doable for me to join at UTC 19:00

I'm in the EU / Central tz (21:00) and this timeframe has become impossible for me 😞

[BethGriggs]

Similar for me, the later time is just a little bit too late for me to regularly join.

[ghinks]

I too am ok with the current times. It has been a busy end of year for me. I will be attending going forwards.

[thescientist13]

I'm also EST, so currently both of the meeting times are fairly accommodating to me at the moment, but am flexible, assuming there are no work meeting conflicts.

edit: this tool may help for finding out where we are geographically, and see where we overlap and see if that can help influence the decision
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/est-to-aest-converter

[mhdawson]

A few proposals are to move the 3PM EST on Tuesdays

• Thursday at 12 EST on the weeks the Community Committee is not held or
• Thursday at 1 EST on the weeks the Web frameworks team does not meet

Darcy will setup a doodle to get input on those 2 timeslots.

[darcyclarke]

Link to the Doodle Calendar: https://doodle.com/poll/cy7ip6bizy3c9y5u

Feel free to mark which timeslots work best for you (they should include the two existing times we've been using, as well as other times mentioned by @mhdawson & slots that work around existing Node.js/OpenJS Foundation calls bi-weekly on Wednesdays)

[styfle]

Tuesdays are usually pretty booked for me so I voted for the Thursday time slots.

[thescientist13]

@darcyclarke / @ljharb
Is the proposal intended to consolidate all meetings times to be the same day / time of the week?

Currently the meeting times alternate every 2 weeks, between the following :

• Tuesday, @9am EST
• Tuesday, @3pm EST

I wasn't sure if the issue / doodle is aiming to:

1. adjust one of these existing meeting times
2. align both meetings to be the same

I am fine with both ways, but was just curious how the replies to the doodle will be applied to the current schedule.

[mhdawson]

@BethGriggs, @wesleytodd, @ruyadorno @nodejs/package-maintenance can you fill in the doodle so we can close on an updated time next week.

[mhdawson]

Based on the doodle we agreed to move the Tuesday 9 AM time to Thursday at 1-2 ET as well as keeping the current Tuesday 3-4 time, that covers the two most popular times and has at least one time that everybody who responded can make.

[mhdawson]

Meeting moved.