Here’s my two cents as a Reefling: for me it doesn’t work very well. The rhythm / schedule (for nobody’s fault) doesn’t seem to align with our meeting needs, which causes us to cancel half of the meetings. For me there are also too many Full Member plenaries. I can see the need for having a meeting to discuss very sensitive issues every once and a while, and I certainly see the need for efficient meetings (i.e. without being outnumbered by newlings), but for now I think we are losing out on including our Associate Members.
My proposal would be to wait for the architects’ meeting schedule and the updated gannt chart (project’s planning), and then to see whether we can rethink the schedule.