Hi Jonathan, Super! Let's wait a day for more feedback, but it looks like most people are into trying this.
-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 15:34, 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
