[wplug-plan] Any thoughts on Shortening the Meetings?

[Beth Lynn Eicher]

Letś talk about this at the meeting.

The reason why we have meetings 10am-2pm is tradition. Before we had
regular business meetings, 10-11 was donut hour. 11am to noon was the
talk. Pizza would be the rest of the time unless we needed to return
to the talk due to extended content. We´ve had talks conclude before
lunch and we´ve have talks that go on until almost 2pm. Back in the
day, we´d schedule the longer talks as ¨tutorials¨ where we would plan
to have 2-3 hours of talk with a lunch break half way through. GUMs
would be a one hour talk with informal business discussion after
lunch. I liked having the business discussion after the talk but I was
outvoted.

I would be in favor of cutting GUMs to end at 1pm but we have to do
something about pizza time since that tends to drag. Also, letś count
the number of people who show up between 1pm and 2pm today.

The 5th person who shows up between one and two today owes me a
package of gummy bears.


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Michael Semcheski
<mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to throw this out for discussion.  Its not something to try
> for tomorrows meeting, but I wanted to see what other people thought of this
> idea.
>
> Currently, the meeting agenda has stuff planned from 9:30 to 2:00pm.  I
> wonder if it would be possible to cut out the business meeting if there's no
> business to discuss on the agenda (which there often isn't).  Also, having
> pizza at the meeting location obliges the meeting host, co-host, and cleanup
> crew to stay until 2:00.  That makes for a long meeting.
>
> To me, I'm coming to the meeting because I want to hear an interesting
> talk.  I want to help with the meeting because that's what everybody should
> do.  But, I don't want to have a big chunk of my day (9:30 to 2:00) eaten up
> so I can a 60 to 90 minute talk.
>
> Socializing and getting a bite to eat is great, but we could make plans to
> go as a group to lunch, whether its on Flagstaff Hill, Schenley Plaza, Eat
> N' Park or Morten's Steakhouse.
>
> Basically, we've planned 270 minutes worth of stuff for the sake of a 90
> minute talk.  I think it puts the host and cohost in a tough spot.  Just
> curious if anyone else has any thoughts on this.
>
> Mike
>
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