Since the new schedule isn't as predictable as weekly on a Sunday I spun up a quick Google Calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cqqj4ohm2oaeceenhmghbf28t8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York> .
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:16 PM xglasyliax . <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks. > > I haven't actively done any coding for Blender since Tears of Steel, so > perhaps I'm more well known as the FreeBSD build guy. > > One of the major difficulties I faced while trying to code anything > significant to Blender was in fact the time zone issue. (I'm in the same > timezone as Chicago, IL USA) > > Weekly meetings were/are always during Church for me, so I was never to > attend them. It also proved difficult that during my most free/productive > "after work" hours, many of the devs were no longer available via IRC due > to it being middle of the night for the bulk of them. I distinctly recall > it being tough enough that when Campbell took over for me the coding of a > part I was working on, it came as nothing but a huge relief. This was due > to my inability to discuss things during hours conducive to the majority of > devs. Perhaps that was partially just my limited view of the times, and my > lack of knowledge of who I could ask questions to about certain parts of > code, but it was a real difficulty for me. > > So, now we get this very exciting email about meeting rotation... > > Being able to attend weekly/bi-weekly meetings would be wonderful! This new > schedule would be a big difference maker for me personally, and it's the > most exciting email (for me) in the bf-commiters mail in a long time. I do > read them all, and long for the days when I was helping contribute to > Blender something more significant than compiling a binary every once in a > while. > > Thank you Ton and the Blender community. > > 2015-12-29 13:00 GMT-06:00 Bastien Montagne <[email protected]>: > > > Yep, also for trying that, sounds more fair for non-european people! :) > > > > Le 29/12/2015 19:18, Ton Roosendaal a écrit : > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
