Alternate meeting times

[praveksharma]

Presently, the PQCP TSC meets every two weeks at 01.00pm UTC. As discussed in the meeting on 16 January 2025 I'm making this issue to gauge interest from the community and see whether alternate time slots would allow for increased member participation.

[planetf1]

In addition to discussion amongst existing members, we could consider sharing this :

• PQCA TSC mailing list (offline, since the next meeting is in a month)
• Open Quantum safe mailing list, github discussions, in dev meetings
• Discord (pqcp channels)

Directly with anyone we each know how may be interested

Particularly affected are those towards the central/west of US & Canada
If we do change @mkannwischer is likely most affected

Possibly:

• openSSl mailing list - if it relates to any ongoing discussion around usage?

Any other places?

As far as approaches, one thing the oqs team do, is to have alternate timed meetings a few hours apart. this adds a little more flexibility for time zones either side (1500 utc and 1730 utc)

Perhaps we could consider, amongst the current members, is how late we can reasonably go, so as to try an alternate late session?

[mkannwischer]

I would not mind to alternate the meeting time as the current meeting time (9 pm) isn't ideal for me either.
We could do one slot that is friendly to Americas + Europe and one that is friendly to Europe + Asia.