[Bf-committers] Proposal - new meeting schedule for 2016

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Here's a fun diagram comparing local times on 5 places in the world.
Easy to see how it's impossible to define a meeting time where everyone can attend.

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner-times.aspx?&L0=US-CA&Day=29&Mon=12&Y=2015&L1=US-NY&L2=NL&L3=IN&L4=AU-NSW&L5=&L6=&L7=

-Ton-

(And sorry for typos in my mail, I didn't check it well before sending)

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands



> On 29 Dec, 2015, at 13:14, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> If you look at the Developer Top 22 I posted, you can see that Blender lacks active contributors from the Americas... Canada, USA, Centra and South America are not represented as much it could.
> 
> For that reason I would propse to test a new meeting schedule for 2016. A fun rotating schedule.
> At least try it a month!
> 
> The meeting concept is based on these simple assumptions:
> 
> - Have less meetings, two per month should be enough to attend.
> - Cluster time zones in three sections - LA, Amsterdam, Sydney
> - For each time zone section, we organize one meeting per month at a fixed day at 10 AM.
> 
> These 10 AM meetings would be:
> 
> - LA: 9th of month
> - AMS: 18th of month
> - SYD: 27th of month.
> 
> These times are fixed, local, and stay same independent of daylight savings. Attendants in other timezones will have to check what's the matching local time in order to attend.
> 
> For January, the timing table then looks as follows:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jEooASg01BMply2DrI19-KDo62YQ4c_UAboH8-1oCMQ/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
> 
> I would also like to invite one of the active Americans to chair the monthly "LA time" meeting.
> Jonathan Williamson, would you be available? I can backup :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> 
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