[ogsa-wg] Proposal for restructuring teleconferences

[David Snelling]

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On 18 Jan 2007, at 04:57, Andreas Savva wrote:

>
> * Background
>
> At the moment OGSA-WG has 2 calls a week each scheduled for 2 hours.
> Both of these calls are broadly structured along the lines of 1)
> logistics/administration (early discussion, AI review, planning, etc);
> 2) one or more technical topics.
>
> * Problem
>
> Only a small core group of people join the calls for both the  
> logistics
> discussion and for all technical topics. Many other people may not  
> have
> a strong interest in the logistics portion of the calls, or may only
> want to join the calls for certain technical topics.
>
> Though the agendas have estimates for the duration of each agenda item
> these durations are not 'hard' and it is difficult for participants to
> time when to join a call if they just want to join a specific  
> technical
> topic. (And sometimes topics move around during agenda bashing  
> anyway.)
>
> * Proposal
>
> The start times, frequency (twice a week) and overall duration (2  
> hours
> each) of the calls stay the same. We subdivide each two hour call  
> into 1
> hour slots, for a total of 4 slots a week. Of these 4 one-hour  
> slots (at
> most) 1 slot a week will be for logistics/administration with the
> remaining slots for technical discussion. The logistics slot will
> alternate between Monday and Thursday each week. Only a single  
> technical
> topic may be scheduled to a slot. A topic may not exceed its slot
> duration. If discussion on a topic finishes early or is canceled then
> the next topic does not start until its scheduled slot time. In other
> words the slots are independent of each other.
>
> Assuming that for week 1 the topics are Workflow, EMS, and Info Model
> then the schedule could be:
> Monday   7 am(slot 1): Info Model
> Monday   8 am(slot 2): Logistics
> Thursday 10pm(slot 3): EMS
> Thursday 11pm(slot 4): Workflow
> (Times are in JST)
>
> Week 2 would have the the Logistics slot on Thursday.
>
> Suppose that in this example Thursday's EMS discussion finishes in 30
> minutes, i.e., by 10:30pm JST. The Workflow discussion would not start
> early; it would still start at 11:00pm JST. So the people who  
> dialed in
> for slot 3 and also want to join slot 4 could hang up, do some other
> work, and dial back in after 30 minutes. If someone wants to join just
> the Workflow discussion then they would not have to join the call from
> 10pm and wait.
>
> -- 
> Andreas Savva
> Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd
>
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