Re: New/Old Issue:15 days

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

Longer, shorter, I don't know, all I know is that if I'm hosting
a meeting at Sun (as a for instance, as I'm sure the same applies
to other orgs), if I don't have an accurate *final* count of
participants
15 or more days prior to the meeting, I might not be able to 
accomodate the meeting properly. That's all I meant (and I believe
that's all I said).

Eduardo


Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre wrote:
> 
> >Jon Bosak wrote:
> > The problem with making the notification period longer than 15
> >> days is that it would give people less than 15 days to decide to
> >> attend the meeting in the first place.
> 
> and Eduardo agreed:
> >And would be the host less than two weeks to prepare for the meeting,
> >which may be too short in some organizations, when the meeting is
> >face-to-face.
> 
> Fascinating.
> 
> I did not want to make the period *longer*, I desired shorter.
> Yes, you need a rough count before a meeting, but it seems very awful to
> me to demand 15/14 days notice and thereby exclude anyone who does not
> hear about the meeting until 13 days away.
> 
> If you know you are having a meeting, and 85-90% of your folks have
> given you sufficient notice, how really awful is it that a few have not?
> 
> What is you are on vacation, out of email reach.  get home and see the notice.
> But now there is no time to say you are interested.
> 
> --Debbie
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