Re: [alac] Agenda and meetings

["Jacqueline Morris" <jam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm OK with Thursday afternoon, just let me know in decent time.
Jacqueline

On 3/28/06, Izumi AIZU <aizu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> To be blunt, Friday afternoon is too late for several reasons.
> As Vittorio points out, it will not be used for preparing
> our comment for Public Forum. I like to see the collective work,
> rather than just trusting the chair or anuyone.
>
> Second, I have made the reservation to fly out on Friday afternoon,
> assuming that not many ALAC members would stay. I checked the
> flight schedule again hoping to change into later flight, but that
> is the latest flight of the day for me.
>
> I was surprised to hear that no meeting is scheduled on Thursday
> afternoon. While I understand that some people want to spend
> that time for touring or sightseeing, I think we are paid to come
> here to work and we have an obligation for that. I would still
> suggest to have a ALAC meeting within the working
> time-frame and spend leisure time only after our primary work
> is done. Or, to find any mutual compromise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> izumi
>
> At 06:09 06/03/28 +0200, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >All,
> >
> >in the interest of productivity, I was wondering whether we should not
> >rather schedule some additional internal meetings for the rest of the
> >week. Some people were talking about tomorrow 8-9,15, or alternately
> >Thursday afternoon.
> >
> >I think it depends on the amount of issues we need to discuss, which
> >unfortunately is unclear yet; may I suggest again that we could throw a
> >list of open agenda items to the list, so that we can then understand how
> >much time we actually need, and whether something needs to be discussed
> >earlier in the week.
> >
> >Perhaps Friday afternoon is enough (though some people will already have
> >left), but for example I would like to remind that no statement can be
> >made at the Public Forum (eg on Verisign) if we haven't had the time to
> >draft it, circulate it and approve it, so we should do some appropriate
> >advance planning.
> >--
> >vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
> >http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...
>
>


--
Jacqueline Morris
www.carnivalondenet.com
T&T Music and videos online