On 01/25/2018 09:44 AM, Graham Hayes wrote:
What were the objections to running the meeting the day before, like is traditionally done before a summit?
Actually, it was the other way around: Monday during the PTG was raised as an option at the Sydney F2F board meeting, and no one objected. We did discuss it, and there were a mixture of factors involved. Originally we were planning for this meeting to be joint with the TC and UC again, and would have automatically excluded Monday as an option for that. But, when it dropped back to more of a procedural meeting, there were fewer conflicts. And, while we didn't have to do the meeting at the PTG, about half of the board members were planning to be at the PTG anyway, and for the rest co-locating means they get more contact with the technical side of the project than they might naturally tend to get. Personally, I didn't object to Monday because in the past I've found doing a full day of board meetings on Sunday before a full week of technical meetings to be a bit grueling. I know for others meeting on Monday meant they could spend Saturday with their families before traveling to the PTG on Sunday. AFAIK, this is the first time we've tried this pattern, and we may not repeat it. But, it did seem worth trying. Allison