In order to improve the efficacy of the weekly Joint Grid Operations meeting I’d like to propose a change to the ROC reporting windows.
Currently the sites can fill their reports continuously during the week and then ROCs have a window from Saturday at 06:00 (UTC) until Monday 12:00 (UTC) to fill their reports. This leaves only 2-3 hours (depending on time of year) for the preparation of the operations meeting which is simply insufficient time to create the agenda, contact all the necessary people for the issues being raised and give the attendees sufficient time to understand (or even know about) the issues that will be raised at the meeting. This drastically reduces the utility of the meeting.
I would like to ask that we move the reporting window for the ROCs (and the VOs) so that it finishes on Friday at 08:00 (UTC). This then gives 1.5 working days to prepare the meeting. I would suggest that the ROCs shouldn’t need a lot of time (<1 day?) to complete their reports.