Longer or more meetings?

[Margaret Wasserman]

>Also, if 1/2 day is better than 2 hours, why isn't a full day better still,
>or 2 days or 4? This, of course, leads to the focus that has been developing
>on having interim meetings. As has been noted, however, the implied
>requirement to attend meetings, is exclusionary.
>
>Perhaps the real challenge is to find way to do more work online and/or more
>work in design teams that are legitimately responsive to working group rough
>consensus?

Perhaps there are other ways to solve the "exclusionary" problem...

Perhaps we could charge money for attendance at the interim meetings
(something small that most companies wouldn't balk at), and the chairs
and/or ADs could use that money to fund travel for subject-matter
experts who don't have corporate backing (academicians, consultants,
the momentarily unemployed...).

Margaret