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

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Tue Dec 29 19:17:22 CET 2015


Hi,

In my proposal, Mountain time would mean meetings start at 11h for you, even better.
Having a 10 AM mountain time meeting would exclude long sleeping people in PST again.

Further I like it to have 3 big cities for timezones you can remember easily. LA, AMS, SYD.

-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



> On 29 Dec, 2015, at 18:39, Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.aaron00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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