Hi, Here's a fun diagram comparing local times on 5 places in the world. Easy to see how it's impossible to define a meeting time where everyone can attend.
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner-times.aspx?&L0=US-CA&Day=29&Mon=12&Y=2015&L1=US-NY&L2=NL&L3=IN&L4=AU-NSW&L5=&L6=&L7= -Ton- (And sorry for typos in my mail, I didn't check it well before sending) -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > On 29 Dec, 2015, at 13:14, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > If you look at the Developer Top 22 I posted, you can see that Blender lacks > active contributors from the Americas... Canada, USA, Centra and South > America are not represented as much it could. > > For that reason I would propse to test a new meeting schedule for 2016. A fun > rotating schedule. > At least try it a month! > > The meeting concept is based on these simple assumptions: > > - Have less meetings, two per month should be enough to attend. > - Cluster time zones in three sections - LA, Amsterdam, Sydney > - For each time zone section, we organize one meeting per month at a fixed > day at 10 AM. > > These 10 AM meetings would be: > > - LA: 9th of month > - AMS: 18th of month > - SYD: 27th of month. > > These times are fixed, local, and stay same independent of daylight savings. > Attendants in other timezones will have to check what's the matching local > time in order to attend. > > For January, the timing table then looks as follows: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jEooASg01BMply2DrI19-KDo62YQ4c_UAboH8-1oCMQ/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0 > > I would also like to invite one of the active Americans to chair the monthly > "LA time" meeting. > Jonathan Williamson, would you be available? I can backup :) > > Thanks, > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
