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

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Tue Dec 29 19:18:41 CET 2015


Hi Jonathan,

Super! Let's wait a day for more feedback, but it looks like most people are into trying this.

-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 15:34, 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-
>>> 
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