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

[Jonathan Williamson]

I quite like this plan. It may prove to be a bit difficult to keep track of the shifting meeting times, but if only joining two a month then it wouldn't be too bad. 

It would certainly make it easier for a lot of people to join at least the one in their region. 

I'm happy to chair the LA meeting.

Jonathan

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
> 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-
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> 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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