Re: Gather.town hour every month?

["Bron Gondwana" <brong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, at 07:50, Keith Moore wrote:

On 3/13/21 3:35 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Do an experiment. Run a meeting every 6 days (so in a few weeks we have an indication of the most popular days of the week) and run it one hour later each time (so that in a few weeks we have an indication of the most popular hours of the day).

As above, but treat showing up for a meeting on a particular day of the 

week at a particular time slot as if it were a vote indicating 

preference for a meeting day (of the week) and time. Imagine that 

everyone's individual vote (as expressed by attending a meeting) is 

written on a piece of paper and placed in a (virtual) hat.   Then for 

subsequent meetings, pull one of those pieces of paper out of that 

virtual hat and hold the meeting on that day and time.   Discard votes 

after N weeks of their being cast so that the votes continue to reflect 

(nearly) current preferences.   That makes it "fair" in the sense that 

everyone's preference is equally represented, though people with less 

common preferences will get meetings in their favorite days/time zones 

less often.

(bikeshedding is fun!)

CC: the diversity list.  Tyranny of the majority here we are again.

Bron.

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