[CESG] FW: CMC action: increased use of teleconferences and webconferences

[Barkley, Erik J (3170)]

Adrian,

To the best of my recollection each area included a slide about this in the CESG report to CMC at the Spring meetings.  The CSS Area WG webex mtgs/teleconferences have proceeded along similar lines as that indicated during the CMC report in Darmstadt.  I have recently followed up with Nick re use of what  ISO Webex facilities and plan to give it trial run in the near future.   As I recall the main constraining factor for the CSS Area WG is the timezone spread - not so hard to arrange teleconferences if the spread is contained to 9 hours or less (typically the US West Coast has to be on-line early and Europe has to stay late), but it gets more interesting when, for example, JAXA representatives participate.  For the CSS Area it has only worked thanks to sacrifice of personal time at a very late hour - typically our JAXA colleagues have to join at 11 pm local - the alternative is late in the day for US west coast, early in the Morning for JAXA and ~2 am for European colleagues.   So I believe the increase use of telecon really only gets us so far - it does not automatically mean greater working group participation, etc.

-Erik

From: cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org [mailto:cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] On Behalf Of Hooke, Adrian J (9000)
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 1:13 PM
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Subject: [CESG] FW: CMC action: increased use of teleconferences and webconferences

I don't recall getting any responses to this Action. Did anybody send inputs?

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From: Hooke, Adrian J (9000)
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:29 PM
To: CESG
Cc: CESG-ALL
Subject: CMC action: increased use of teleconferences and webconferences

Area Directors: could you please survey your Working Group Chairs and determine which groups are regularly using electronic communications for between-Plenary work, to answer the following CMC action item:


CMC-A-2011-11-06


CESG to investigate various approaches to encourage greater use of teleconferences for Working Groups, especially those that are currently not taking advantage of this technology.



Action: CESG

Due Date: Spring 2012 (update at midterm telecon)

Status: Open


For those groups that are NOT regularly using tele/webcons for intermediate meetings, could you please remind them that CCSDS face-face meeting time is becoming an increasingly expensive and precious resource, and that all Working Groups are expected to be using these media between Plenary meetings so that they come fully prepared for face-face decisional meetings?

Responses (indicating which WGs are/are not using inter-Plenary tele/webconferencea) are due by the CESG meeting on Friday 20 April. Please include as a table in in your reports.

Best regards
Adrian

Adrian J. Hooke
Chairman, CCSDS Engineering Steering Group

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