Meeting attendance

[Ian Lister]

Here's a bit of a cat to throw among the pigeons...

Has anybody else noticed that meeting attendance has dropped off
significantly over the last year or two? Would anybody like to speculate
as to why? Is it a problem? Are we getting less relevant? Is earlier
enthusiasm wearing off? Or does it just indicate that we are more
effective at operating and communicating between meetings?

Whatever the reason, should we think about whether we should adapt?
Perhaps change the meeting format, or have meetings more or less
frequently? Adopt a more formal mechanism for allowing decisions to be
made by the membership between meetings? Or re-focus on making decisions
at meetings where possible and not between them?

I have no hidden agenda here - it's just been at the back of my mind for a
while and I was wondering what others thought.

Cheers,

Ian

[Tom Adams]

Hi Ian,

I'm a bit of a silent member. I joined when I worked in the CBD, but
haven't done so for a couple of years. It's quite hard for me to
travel into the city for meetings so I've not been to any. Not sure if
any other people have a similar problem :)

Tom

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[Tam]

Hi Ian,

I intended to come along (to my first meeting), but I couldn't take
such a long lunch break with meetings on today. Perhaps shorter
meetings, or at the beginning or end of the work day?

Tam

On 25 Mar, 14:36, Ian Lister <list-cbd...@lister.dnsalias.net> wrote:
> Here's a bit of a cat to throw among the pigeons...
>
> Has anybody else noticed that meeting attendance has dropped off

> significantly over the last year or two? <snip>

[Christopher Biggs]

On 25 Mar 2009, at 2:36 PM, Ian Lister wrote:
>
> Has anybody else noticed that meeting attendance has dropped off
> significantly over the last year or two? Would anybody like to
> speculate
> as to why? Is it a problem?

I've moved office to Milton and can't make as many meetings as I'd
like any more (hmmmnn, none since the move, actually). I still cycle
to the city several days a week so membership is still important for me.

If I had to make a criticism, it's that the meetings are too long and
too much time is spent on administrivia, and not enough on the juicy
business of snarking at $OBSTACLE_TO_CYCLING. Some of them have
stretched near two hours, which is a wee bit more time than I can
comfortably skive off for...

--chris

[James Philp]

I must admit since subscribing to cdbbug I haven't attended any meetings mainly due to time restrictions. If general meetings could be confined to an hour I would attend.
Jim

[brisopdiva]

It seems there is a consensus that the meetings are too long.

The meetings are too long because there is much to discuss. My
suggestion is that the meeting begins at 12:30pm with a one hour
administrative meeting that is minuted and logged on the website.
Convenors to attend (at least one of them) and any other members who
are interested in advertised topics (attendance may need to be
confirmed prior to meeting).

At 1:30pm there could be a 30 minute meeting where one of many things
could occur, e.g. a guest speaker and discussion about presentation OR
a workshop on a specific topic OR a session to get everyone's comments
on a particular topic that we need to prepare a submission on, etc.

Any thoughts?

Cheers! Leslie

On Mar 25, 2:36 pm, Ian Lister <list-cbd...@lister.dnsalias.net>
wrote: