Sorry Burke. I read too much information into the UTC time reference. I'm clear now.
thanks, Glen On 2011-08-30, at 6:35 AM, Burke Mamlin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Glen McCallum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Burke: > > Are you coordinating calls via UTC now? The call was previously specified > according to "Eastern Time regardless of daylight savings, etc" > > So, I was actually just trying to communicate the time of *this week's* > meeting in a non-ethnocentric manner by using UTC. I did not mean to commit > us to abandoning a shift for daylight savings time. That's something we can > discuss between now and the DST shift (perhaps a topic on a future call or > for the implementers meeting?). We could go either way; I agree that a 6am > call (for folks in UTC-8) is a lot to ask. > > -Burke > > > So just to confirm your intention … for the North Americans … right now I'm > on daylight savings (UTC-7) so the call continues to be at 7am. But later > this year I'll be back on standard time (UTC-8) so I'll start joining at 6am? > > (I do realize that the majority of people in the world don't observe daylight > savings so it becomes less relevant as the openmrs audience expands) > > thanks, > Glen > > On 2011-08-29, at 8:55 PM, Burke Mamlin wrote: > >> Devs, >> >> As you may or may not have known, we are re-organizing our weekly OpenMRS >> calls. We've shifted the 2-hour Thursday calls one hour earlier and will >> focus on the on implementers for the first hour followed by an hour of >> technical/developer forum. During our developer forum (2-3pm UTC) this >> Thursday, I'd like to shake things up a bit and do some lightning talks, >> giving us a chance to hear from more people. During the call, we'll run >> through as many folks on that call as we can (in order of the SHA-1 digest >> of our names, of course [1]) and give each person a few minutes to introduce >> him/herself and say whatever they please to the group (bring up a >> development issue that is important to you, briefly describe something >> you're working on or would like to work on, or teach the group how to yodel… >> it's up to you). We've got plenty of work to do with sprints, hackathons, >> 1.9 release, and the upcoming implementers meeting; it's time to have some >> fun! >> >> I'd welcome everyone who is able to join us on the call and think about how >> you would answer these questions: >> What's one thing that OpenMRS devs don't know about you? >> >> Over the next 3-6 months, what's one thing you would change about OpenMRS? >> Cheers, >> >> -Burke >> >> [1] http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/ >> import java.security.MessageDigest >> >> tokens = """Norman Schnoggenlocher >> Barak Obama >> Paul Biondich""" >> >> def messageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA1") >> tokens.split("\n").collect { >> messageDigest.update( it.getBytes() ); >> new BigInteger(1, messageDigest.digest()).toString(16).padLeft( 40, '0' ) >> + " " + it >> }.sort().join("\n") >> Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > > Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > > Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
