I quite like this plan. It may prove to be a bit difficult to keep track of the shifting meeting times, but if only joining two a month then it wouldn't be too bad.
It would certainly make it easier for a lot of people to join at least the one in their region. I'm happy to chair the LA meeting. Jonathan > On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
