This sounds like a good idea however I have one suggestion. For the USA meeting use Mountain Time so there is not a big gap for people living in pacific time e.g. (Mike Erwin, and myself)
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jonathan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
