Re: [Tails-project] RFC - Fixing our monthly meetings

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Aihe: Re: [Tails-project] RFC - Fixing our monthly meetings
Hi!

as nobody intervened before the deadline (you still have 3 hours..) I
consider this proposal as accepted and we'll implement that.

Cheers!
u.

u:
> Hi!
>
> Last year, we've seen our monthly meetings being less and less well
> attended, in particular by core people, which made taking decisions at
> meetings hard or impossible. Thus, at the last summit we decided to
> change some things which we've already partly implemented:
>
> * The new starting time is: 19.00 Central European Time.
>
> * Avoid Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Whenever the 3rd of the month is
> on such a day, we postpone the meeting to the 6th of the month.
>
> * Have better note taking: The facilitator should explicitly mark
> decisions in the chat log, e.g. "Decision: we want blah", "Action:
> person X does foo" for the note taker.
>
> * Better prepare discussions: Not enforced, but the strategy is: drop
> unprepared discussions more aggressively. A person adding a "Discuss"
> ticket to the monthly meeting schedule should make sure all the
> information needed to discuss is on the ticket before the meeting starts.
>
> * Have shorter meetings: maximum 1 hour.
> * Start on time without waiting
> * Note taker + facilitator roles already decided in the blueprint
>
> * "Hole in the roof": let's limit ourselves to 5 minutes for this topic.
>
> People who attended the summit also proposed the following points and we
> agreed on them. However, we still want other people who did not attend
> to have their say.
>
> Proposals
> =========
>
> In this proposal we call core people those that have 20 or more days of
> paid work for Tails per year.
>
> 1. Take turns on meeting roles (facilitator note taker)
>    Core people take turns, but those that really don't want to can
>    opt-out for everyone's sake.
>    Non-Core people can do this work too, but they don't have to.

>
> 2. Make it mandatory for Core people to attend at least 50% of the time,
>    i.e. some people are supposed to show up at at least 6 out of 12
>    meetings.

>
> Deadline for comments, proposals, requests: March 10th 2018. You may
> also comment on the already implemented changes, in case you have better
> ideas, or anything else to say :)
>
> Cheers!
> u.