SPDX Legal Team co-lead
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> On Sep 28, 2017, at 1:00 PM, W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:49:46PM -0600, J Lovejoy wrote:
>> This is a reminder for our call tomorrow (Thursday) at the usual
>> time: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team
> 
> With the first Sunday in November [1] in the not terribly-distant
> future, I was curious about how that page's:
> 
>  … every other Thursday at 18:00 GMT (10:00AM PT, 11:00 MT, 12:00 CT,
>  1:00PM ET)
> 
> works with DST transitions, since the 10am PDT meeting today was
> actually at 17:00 UTC.  Searching through the list archives turned up
> [2], which also suggests the meetings are pinned to PT instead of UTC.
> A more accurate description might be:
> 
>  … every other Thursday at 10:00 am Pacific Time, (11am MT, noon CT,
>  1pm ET, either 18:00 or 19:00 UTC depending on US DST).

right, because I’m terrible at this! But I think this is right - basically the 
call is always at 10am Pacific time, or maybe I should say, 10am Pacific Time 
for all of the states in the Pacific time zone that observe daylight savings, 
which is all of them with the exception of Arizona. 
> 
> Although if the intention is really to pin to UTC, it would be:
> 
>  … every other Thursday at 17:00 UTC (9am PST, 10am PDT/MST, 11am
>  MDT/CST, noon CDT/EST, 1pm EDT).
> 
> There is similar nominally-UTC-pinned wording in [3,4], and possibly
> in other places on the list.  I think we want to use consistent
> language that addresses DST in all of those places so folks can
> clearly tell if the meetings track US DST or not.
> 
> To avoid ambiguity and make consuming this information easier, can we
> publish an iCalendar [5] file somewhere which folks can import into
> whichever calendar software they use?  The Opencontainers folks do
> this for their Pacific-pinned meetings [6], and being able to see
> those on my phone is nice :).  I'm happy to contribute to managing the
> iCalendar manually in GitHub (like [6], which you can import from
> [7]).  But I expect most calendar apps have a way to export *.ics, so
> if an SPDX admin want to setup a calendar and just post exports at a
> public URL, that would be fine too.  For example, here are
> instructions for exporting *.ics from Google Calendar [8].

this would be awesome if you could do this!  This would also help with people 
who join the mailing list mid-year or update their calendars, etc, as they can 
always have the invite to add to their calendar (I usually send a new invite in 
January to the mailing list each year, which I send from my time zone - 
mountain time, all of which observes day light savings :)

I think the tech team may also like this… Kate, Gary?

What do you need to make this happen - a new repo in the SPDX Github account to 
store the ICS file(s)?  Name for such repo?

Thanks!
Jilayne

> 
> Cheers,
> Trevor
> 
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States
> [2]: https://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx/2015-March/000960.html
>     Subject: Rescheduling important SPDX General Meeting
>     Date: Wed Mar 4 20:01:10 UTC 2015
> [3]: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting
> [4]: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Technical_Team
> [5]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
> [6]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/master/meeting.ics
> [7]: 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/master/meeting.ics
> [8]: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37648?hl=en
> 
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