TSC - ongoing meeting schedule

[planetf1]

In our TSC meeting on 2024-05-23 we agreed to review the current meeting schedule.

Note that the next meeting will follow the current pattern, and will be on 2024-06-06 at 13:00 UTC.

Currently we are arranging 1-off meetings on alternate Thursdays at 1300 UTC as agreed for the first meeting

This is fairly late (2100) for Taiwan, and very early for US, particularly west-coast (0600)

TSC participants so far are spread as follows:

Participant	Voting Member	Location	Timezone (summer)
@ajbozarth		US / Texas	UTC-5
@ashman-p
@dstebila	Y	Canada / Ontario	UTC-4
@franziskuskiefer	Y	Germany	UTC+2
@hanno-becker	Y		UTC+1
@hartm		USA / California	UTC-7
@jschanck	Y	Canada / Ontario	UTC-4
@mbbarbosa	Y	Portugal	UTC+1
@mkannwischer	Y	Taiwan	UTC+8
@planetf1	Y	UK	UTC+1
@ryjones		USA / Washington	UTC-7
@tfaoliveira	Y	Portugal	UTC+1
Duc Tri Nguyen		US / VI	UTC-4
Michael Maximilien		US / California	UTC-7
Rod Chapman		UK	UTC+1
Yarkin Doroz		US / MA	UTC-4

Timezone Spread: 15 hours Timezone spread of voting members: 12 hours

[planetf1]

Please comment with your thoughts below.

A few things to consider

Frequency:

• We've had 2 meetings close together, but ran out of time in both. There seems plenty to discuss, and we're making progress. We don't yet have other formal meetings, so continuing alternate weeks could be useful.

time:

• 1300 UTC is very early for US west coast (0600). just one hour later 1400 UTC could help but is very late in Taiwan?

• some groups have alternating times to encourage the broadest participation, but at the risk of fragmentation. This could allow for any of the following

  • Europe/Asia
  • Europe/North America
  • Asia/North America

  day:

  Thursday seems to work well at the current time, but may need to change if we modify time. Excluding Monday/Friday probably makes sense to avoid pushing working week boundaries.

  participants:

  The current schedule was based off the initial TSC voting members availability. For growth we likely want to make it easier for more people to join. My own feeling is we are still very early and need to consolidate first, which means focussing at least on current tsc participation (with flexibility when more interest is expressed)

[hanno-becker]

Minor correction (with no impact): I'm UK time, so UTC+1.

[planetf1]

Minor correction (with no impact): I'm UK time, so UTC+1.

Ah thanks. I didn't realise! Table updated with timezone

[planetf1]

As discussed in 2024-06-20 TSC meeting we will close this until someone brings up the issue again and we can establish an updated consensus on timing/schedule.