Hi, I would like to help!

[Simon Michael]

Mary Gardiner wrote:
> No, there hasn't been a need perceived for them to occur very frequently
> yet. And I think everyone's afraid of the "but why do *I* have to get up
> at 0300 every single week?" argument that would happen on the way to
> setting a regular time :)

Another community that I know of schedules meetings on a fixed interval, 
I think it's every 100 hours. This seems to work reasonably well in that 
it displeases everyone about equally. :) And it's predictable. Eg

"The next seven parties are scheduled for

17:00 (05:00 PM) GMT Monday April 25, 2005

21:00 (09:00 PM) GMT Friday April 29, 2005

01:00 (01:00 AM) GMT Wednesday May 04, 2005

05:00 (05:00 AM) GMT Sunday May 08, 2005

09:00 (09:00 AM) GMT Thursday May 12, 2005

13:00 (01:00 PM) GMT Monday May 16, 2005

17:00 (05:00 PM) GMT Friday May 20, 2005"

Cheers
-Simon