As a delegate I would like to meet other delegates in a periodic zoom call, maybe monthly. But of course, everyone is in different timezones and even if we voted on one that is the most common, we would be excluding people.
So I thought: what if we did a regular call in shifting timezones, each N hours away from each other. For example:
Month 1
Week 1: call at 0h GMT
Week 2: call at 12h GMT
Week 3: call at 6h GMT
Week 4: call at 18h GMT
Delegates would be encouraged to attend 1 or 2 calls so that each individual delegate would only be doing a few calls per month but there would still be enough overlap between them that information can flow in the group.
To make sure that we could accomodate everyone’s schedules, we could further push the call two hours every month:
Month 2
Week 1: call at 2h GMT
Week 2: call at 14h GMT
Week 3: call at 8h GMT
Week 4: call at 20h GMT
Month 3
Week 1: call at 4h GMT
Week 2: call at 16h GMT
Week 3: call at 10h GMT
Week 4: call at 22h GMT
Month 4 would then return to have the exact same schedule as month 1. It sounds all complicated, but we all use calendar software which makes it easier. All it takes is one person to set up all the calls in a shared calendar and then individuals can decide to accept or reject each unique call on their calendar.
Is this crazy?