Hi, In my proposal, Mountain time would mean meetings start at 11h for you, even better. Having a 10 AM mountain time meeting would exclude long sleeping people in PST again.
Further I like it to have 3 big cities for timezones you can remember easily. LA, AMS, SYD. -Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > On 29 Dec, 2015, at 18:39, Aaron Carlisle <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
