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

[Aaron Carlisle]

This sounds like a good idea however I have one suggestion. For the USA
meeting use Mountain Time so there is not a big gap for people living in
pacific time e.g. (Mike Erwin, and myself)

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at cgcookie.com>
wrote:

> 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)
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > 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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