Greetings all,

Lately we haven’t been having much participation in the weekly calls. On top of this, every other week I have a conflict, and then those weeks I don’t have a conflict it has been hard for me to make it on time.

I know it’s hard for folks to commit to the meeting, and the time probably doesn’t help. Unfortunately my flexibility is very limited because getting up any earlier doesn’t work for my family dynamics and an hour later I’m driving kids to school. Any later than that becomes way too late for India and is certainly past normal working hours for Europe and east. Those time constraints of course make it tough to avoid conflicts with IBM internal meetings.

If anyone has any input on other times or days that would work for them, maybe we can find a time more folks can make it.

At the least, I would like to schedule the meeting 30 minutes later (7:30 AM Pacific Time) until the US goes on Daylight Savings Time in the spring. This would avoid the conflict and make it easier for me to make the meeting. But I’m open to other times and days if something works for a good number of folks.

All that said, the alternate meeting at 4:00 PM Pacific Time is going well (except when I forget about it), but I’m not sure that works well for anyone other than those in Australia (it certainly is middle of the night for India).

Thanks

Frank Filz