Hi Anastasia,
awesome idea!
Software. What do people use and like? I am used to Google Meet, and don’t know much about other options.
Personally, I don't have that much preferences. For different reasons, we (re-)evaluated [1] different solutions for the coreboot meeting during the last months. These were Google Meet, BigBlueButton and Jitsi. All of them had at least some minor issues, but Jitsi also had major issues.
* Google Meet: During the last months, it happened a few times that people weren't able to join the meeting. Also, the meeting shouldn't be created by a Googler, since Google made some policy changes (see meeting notes). It seems "free" Google Meet has some limits?
* BigBlueButton: People complained about poor background noise filtering (you can still mute yourself), but beside that everything worked fine.
* Jitsi: It seems, when people use different browsers, then audio and/or video break very randomly, which make it unusable. Many people on the internet have similar problems.
However, in general Google Meet and BigBlueButton are fine for me :)
I would use Google Docs for taking notes.
Time is a tricky question, and it depends on who is going to attend the meeting. We can optimize either for EU-US or for EU-AU. I can say for sure, we have at least one person from AU who is going to attend ;) (that’s me). If it turns out that we have people all over the planet who want to attend, and there is no one time that suits all, then as a plan B we can alternate between two options. That will be time1 and time2 alternating.
Germany here. This site gives a good overview about timezones https://everytimezone.com
I suggest we collect some people and then we create a poll to get an overview about which times work most for people.
// Felix
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NRXqXcLBp5pFkHiJbrLdv3Spqh1Hu086HYkKrgKj...