It would be nice if a rotation scheme were adopted as a standard for ongoing international meetings... also style guidelines for how to publish and translate minutes.
For a brief time it seemed that a universal collection of minutes and meeting-reports might gather on meta; that would at least be a fine place to keep these kinds of rules of thumb for avoiding this type of debate every time an international group gets together to plan something over a number of sessions. --SJ, missing regular public meetings On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Florence Devouard wrote: > Well, I happen to disagree. > We already held 3 wikimanias, and I think a big part of their success > was because it was organized by wikipedians from every part of the > planet. Of course, there was always more local people involved, but > there was not ONLY local people; > When it comes to the very practical organization (such as accomodations, > decoration of the rooms and other renting of microphone, it is cleaer > the local team will be first on the front and it makes sense to choose > meeting times which primarily fit with their schedule. > > However, when it comes to stuff like program, international involvement > is expected and priority should be given to accomodating as many of > people as possible. If that involves making smaller action groups or > rotating hours of meetings, so be it. We will never be able to satisfy > everyone. But we can make efforts. > > > Ant > > Smart Robots wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Since Egypt is the country which will hold the wikimania for 2008 so I >> think it's so wisely from Mido to adjust the time according to egypt >> timing as the volunteers ( that will organize it ) can easily be founded >> , I know these meetings have participations from all over the world. >> >> No offense >> And this is not official I am just a subscriber !! >> >> */Aphaia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: >> >> Corr. >> >> for me 5am, for Titan (and KJ) 4am. >> While I know some people like this hour (e.g. Board election debate, >> ComProj meetings), I am worried this tendency to hold Wikimedia >> relation around 18-20 UTC, moreover to say it "hour good for everyone" >> (while Mido didn't call it so wisely). Simply there is no such hour >> which is good for everyone. >> >> Again, time rotation is the best solution in my opinion. >> >> On Dec 10, 2007 11:42 AM, Aphaia wrote: >> > On Dec 10, 2007 11:22 AM, E wrote: >> >> Exactly, it's 4am here in Australia... possibly 20:00UTC would be >> >> preferable. >> > >> > Not really: 20UTC is for me 4am. >> >> >> >> - E >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > KIZU Naoko >> > http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) >> > Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> KIZU Naoko >> http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) >> Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
