Yeah, expected as much. 6pm is certainly inconvenient, but I suspect 8am on a Monday morning is completely unrealistic for these programmers. =)
So, I say we go for both. One meeting a month for each. See how that goes. On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > On Nov 26, 2011 4:25 PM, "Brian LeRoux" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In other threads we've discussed that we want to continue the > > tradition of having a regular phone call to garden the issue tracker, > > but wish to make it more formalized. > > > > I'd like to propose we have a phone call the second and last Monday of > > each month at 10am PST. > > > > That time means folks on the east coast are calling at 1pm, and in the > > UK at 6pm. Mondays are a passive aggressive day for a meeting of this > > nature but since it is a bit of a reset on our priorities it makes > > sense to me. > > > > Thoughts? > > you are proposing a time that is in work hours for MA but outside work time > for most of the EU and pretty much useless for Australasia. Its almost > impossible to find a time that suits all I'm a community project (where all > includes potential attendees, even ones we don't yet know about). > > Its for this reason that we discourage synchronous communications in ASF > projects. > > Speaking entirely personally (UK), I will not attend meetings that > interfere with my family life. 6pm is the time I sit down for dinner with > my wife and children, so would never attend at that time. > > Speaking for the unknown community a 1600–1700 UTC start time seems to be > what I see as the most popular time for international meetings. However > that still excludes much of Australasia. > > There is no good answer (other than don't have synchronous meetings). > Rotating the times can sometimes help, i.e. exclude people equally. > > Ross
