Face-to-Face and Coordination Teleconferences

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

I've not participated in a face-to-face OASIS TC meeting (though I happen to live within the Redmond gravity well and I think it is wonderful that CMIS has scheduled a meeting in honor of my January 25 70th birthday [;<).

In anticipation of the face-to-face, we might consider how we accommodate, via telecommunication say, those members who are unable to attend in person.  The following thoughts might be useful in organizing an agenda for this:

If there were agreed times for teleconferencing of distant members, one might want to make blocks of time for calls that constitute official meetings, and have other time periods in Redmond be for meetings of the whole.  That means proposals could be developed and posted, but might not be officially adopted except on subsequent calls or even e-mail ballots.  Such unofficial periods are also useful for when there are non-member guests and during labs and demonstrations.

As I said, I haven't done this before, and this just came to mind as something we might want to consider in anticipating the F2F meeting.

 - Dennis

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