Hi, Given that this week is Rosh Hashana and next week is Yom Kippur, traditionally 2 weeks holiday in Israel, does it make sense to maintain the weekly call? I'd suggest cancelling this week and next week's meetings, and having a "drive to 3.2" meeting in 2 weeks time. What do you think, Mike? Thanks, Dave. On 09/17/2012 01:59 PM, Mike Burns wrote: -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

On 09/18/2012 02:35 AM, Dave Neary wrote: As "the casual observer who used to be in these meetings more often" -- I know that it was mentioned last week that there would be a number of folks out through mid-october; holidays off in Israel extend past Yom Kippur. I'm not sure how large that group is, but that would actually be more like 3+ weeks; Sukkot ends on October 8th. That's a fairly good stretch of time with (hopefully) other activities in the works that need updating. Results usually vary, but it might be worth trying to have meetings; there are other activities which don't necessarily require the presence of the folks in Israel. I've found that using holiday-ish times is usually good for things like brainstorming, finding easy fix-it items, etc; "top 5 wiki pages that need love," analyzing data/statistics on downloads from a new release. I'd be happy to pop in one of the weeks and talk a bit about release manager stuff from a features/schedule/etc. perspective, and I know Leslie has ongoing things with events -- maybe looking at collateral/flyers/handouts, new swag ideas, marketing stuff might be fun. Or there's always try out oVirt in the Fedora 18 Alpha release, or plan a test day around it :D... oh, wait, I might be biased there :D These things are always difficult; it's less exciting to have not as many folks in the meeting, and sometimes not incredibly productive, but I always feel like I'm somehow discouraging/disenfranchising people in other regions when cancelling meetings because of local holidays. I usually try to just keep the pulse going and try and bring in other folks to do some fun stuff that may be more enticing than usual :) Of course, all IMO - not trying to throw myself under the bus for anything here (except the release manager notes/observances). Those intending to show up get to make the decision! :) -robyn

On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 16:25 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Yes, I'd rather not cancel the meeting (even if we just meet for 10 min and decide that there isn't much to discuss today). Dave, perhaps we can organize a different agenda for next week with some of these other topics? Mike