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At least for the scientific-wg, what we're actually looking for is
4weekly rather than monthly. I'd be surprised if there's a big call
for monthly given peoples calendars generally work on a weekly basis
for other things...?

Cheers,
Blair

On 16 November 2016 at 10:40, Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:10:04PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Blair Bethwaite wrote:
>> > On 10 Nov 2016 8:56 PM, "Thierry Carrez" <thierry at openstack.org
>> > <mailto:thierry at openstack.org>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The issue with this solution is that any "monthly" slot ends up being
>> >> exactly the same as a "weekly" slot: you can't schedule any
>> >> weekly/biweekly meetings at the same time and location. Monthly meetings
>> >> are therefore paradoxically more wasteful than biweekly meetings, and
>> >> there is therefore little point in adding them to the software since you
>> >> can emulate them with "weekly" bookings and just skip most meetings.
>> >
>> > That seems to be based on the assumption that other groups wouldn't want
>> > monthly scheduling?
>> >
>> > Also, I'd suggest we avoid "monthly" altogether and instead use
>> > "4weekly", that would seem to allow biweekly meetings to use the same
>> > day&time on the alternate (odd/even) week.
>>
>> 4weekly sounds like a good idea! Less conflicts ftw.
>>
>> If we really really want monthly stuff, we could create a channel
>> dedicated to monthly meetings, to avoid creating conflicts on every
>> channels.
>
> I feel like there'is a tension here that we need to work through
>
> is yaml2ical a library for others (outside OpenStack) to use?  If it is and
> *they* want monthly meetings then I really think we shoudl include them.  The
> conflict deection isn't *that* hard and the need for other recurrence types
> would tidy the code.  So form this POV I htink we shoudl certainly allow for
> this.
>
> Within OpenStack, we have several groups that want Monthly meetings so we
> shoudl work out a way to support that.
>
> What we do right now is schedule a weekly meeting and then add a description to
> say "we only hold this on thr nth $day" [1]
>
> We could create a 4weekly which would reduce the wastage.  I'm also open to
> creating #openstack-meeting-monthly and just moving all the monthly meetings
> there.  I feel like we get asked for a solution to this often enough that we
> need to define an answer.
>
> Yours Tony.
>
> [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Documentation_User_Guides_Team_Meeting



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Cheers,
~Blairo