I agree completely. I have always found the 7:30-10PM slots to be suboptimal even when I haven't crossed a lot of timezones. The standard 2.5 hour morning slots also are painful (almost all other meetings have a mid-morning break). I think we should strongly consider retaining this week's schedule.
- RL "Bob" On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Joerg Ott wrote:
At this IETF, we have done a nice experiment with the modified schedule of our meetings for the purpose of dealing with restaurant hours. From the first 2.5 days, I find this an extremely useful thing and we should consider to organize out future meetings in a similar fashion. There are numerous benefits (not in any particular order): -- less impact of jetlag: late night sessions are particularly bad for all the people who fly across many timezones -- easier dinner planning: in most places, we have seen cases of (many) people being late for the evening session just because of restaurant congestion -- we have many informal get-togethers over dinners that would no longer need to be cut short because of the evening session -- we even gain an extra slot before the social on Tuesday night We still can have informal late night meetings after so this feature is not affected (and restaurants serve after 8pm in other cities). What do other people think? Cheers, Joerg
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