Technical Council Meetings and Notes

When & Where We Meet

Regular Meetings

Regular Technical Council Meetings are held Wednesdays at 11:00 AM Eastern U.S. time (following daylight saving time rules for the Eastern U.S. timezone; see this time in your timezone). Download .ics file to add this meeting to your calendar.

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Dedicated Topic Discussions

In addition to our regular weekly meetings, the TC meets on Mondays at 11:00 AM Eastern U.S. time if there is a need to dedicate a full hour to a specific topic.  This meeting will only happen as needed.  The Zoom URL above is used for these meetings as well.

ICS file: Technical Council - Dedicated Discussion Time.ics

How Meeting Agendas are Formed

It's currently the responsibility of the chairperson to pull together meeting agendas each week.  There has been some interest in adopting the idea of forming an executive TC group, which would be subsume this responsibility.  Details TBD.

Recently the agenda has taken the form of:

• Quick status updates on ongoing initiatives.  Ideally these are < 5 minutes and have concrete action items w/ deadlines so we can track progress.
• A large portion of the meeting spent on a single, essential topic.  The idea is to dedicate sufficient meeting to make significant progress on the most important topic.

How Meetings are Conducted

• Hand raising will be used to limit interruptions and talking over one another. 
  • The chairperson will call on those with their hands raised, in the order they were raised.
• Ideally the use of chat should be limited to the current topic of conversation. In particular, chat should not be used to spawn separate topics. 

Action Items

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