[ogsa-wg] Proposal for restructuring teleconferences

[Andreas Savva]

Ellen,

You are correct, it's 7am JST Tuesday. But please note that the time 
slots I gave are just an example to illustrate what the proposal might 
look like in practice.

Andreas

Ellen Stokes wrote:
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> Andreas,
> I really hope you didn't mean to say that monday calls are 7am japan 
> time (that's sunday night in the US)...I assume you mean Tues 7am japan 
> time?
> If my assumption is correct, then Andrew (per his email) shouldn't have 
> a problem with the proposed info model time slot (which would be 5pm 
> eastern on monday).
> Ellen
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> *"Andrew Grimshaw" <grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu>*
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> 01/18/2007 06:51 AM
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> All,
> I think it is useful to break it up into pieces.
> That said, for this semester my constraints that collide are: (all times
> central - as that seems to be what the times in the original message are)
> 
> M-F 07:00-07:30 I am ferrying around children to school
> MWF 9-10                 - teach - can't avoid this one
> MW                 1300-1430                 teach - can't avoid
> M 11-12 mandatory faculty meeting
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> This schedule collides with the info model slots. Which I guess is ok if
> Mark M can make them.
> 
> A
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>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf
>  > Of Andreas Savva
>  > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:57 PM
>  > To: Mailing List for OGSA-WG
>  > Subject: [ogsa-wg] Proposal for restructuring teleconferences
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>  >
>  > * 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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