Dear Mary, I can understand the constraints, but the origami community is only one. I'm quite rigid and I cannot consider an origami day as "world", when it excludes Europe, especially when it spans over a two weeks period.
More and more, in Origami, we have events with "high-sounding" names (olympiad, marathon, prizes, competitions, world origami days...) and I really hope we will not become elitists instead of inclusive, because the step is short and treacherous, even to the one with the best will. My best wishes for a successful WOD. On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 22:50, Mary Drews <j9ho...@sonic.net> wrote: > Hi Lorenzo- > > Thanks for your thoughts. I'm one of the WOD team members, and we have > struggled with this very issue. The "compromise" seems to be everyone being > annoyed a little. WOD is a joint effort with JOAS (Japan Origami Academic > Society) and we "favored" Japan in our time choice. Sadly, to present a > world wide conference there is no convenient time for everyone. The > solution we presented is the beginning of the work day in Japan, end of the > workday in the US, and sadly middle of the night for Europe. I appreciate > your suggestion, but your solution moves the middle of the night to Japan > and that's a non-starter for the sponsor. Unlike other events, we do not > prerecord sessions, so the recording is the actual stream. I'm very sorry > that recordings are not a good solution for you and I wish we could solve > this issue to everyone's satisfaction, but not at this time. > > Thank your for comments. > > Happy Folding > > Mary Drews > On 10/13/2022 11:55 AM, Lorenzo via Origami wrote: > > Dear origamists, > > I've been evaluating whether to attend a WOD for years, but I always need > to deal with a very bad scheduling for the EU folders. > This year, for example, all the classes are from 1am and 3am Central EU > Time. Same for the last WOD editions I remember. > > It's a quite sad thing, in my opinion, because Europe is rich in Origami > associations and origamists. > > I know there is not a perfect solution for the whole planet, of course, > and I also know there will be recordings available, but a better > compromise, like 10 or 11 p.m. GMT seems to me would permit US, EU and JP > to attend live to everyone, it seems to me, because the the range 1am-7am > would have been "placed" across eastern Europe / western Asia (Russia, > basically). > > That's a pity, to me. > > Regards, > Lorenzo > > -- > Lorenzo Lucioni > Duesseldorf - DE > lorenzo.luci...@gmail.com > > -- Lorenzo Lucioni Duesseldorf - DE lorenzo.luci...@gmail.com
