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

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Hello folks.

I haven't actively done any coding for Blender since Tears of Steel, so
perhaps I'm more well known as the FreeBSD build guy.

One of the major difficulties I faced while trying to code anything
significant to Blender was in fact the time zone issue. (I'm in the same
timezone as Chicago, IL USA)

Weekly meetings were/are always during Church for me, so I was never to
attend them. It also proved difficult that during my most free/productive
"after work" hours, many of the devs were no longer available via IRC due
to it being middle of the night for the bulk of them. I distinctly recall
it being tough enough that when Campbell took over for me the coding of a
part I was working on, it came as nothing but a huge relief. This was due
to my inability to discuss things during hours conducive to the majority of
devs. Perhaps that was partially just my limited view of the times, and my
lack of knowledge of who I could ask questions to about certain parts of
code, but it was a real difficulty for me.

So, now we get this very exciting email about meeting rotation...

Being able to attend weekly/bi-weekly meetings would be wonderful! This new
schedule would be a big difference maker for me personally, and it's the
most exciting email (for me) in the bf-commiters mail in a long time. I do
read them all, and long for the days when I was helping contribute to
Blender something more significant than compiling a binary every once in a
while.

Thank you Ton and the Blender community.

2015-12-29 13:00 GMT-06:00 Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr>:

> Yep, also for trying that, sounds more fair for non-european people! :)
>
> Le 29/12/2015 19:18, Ton Roosendaal a écrit :
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > Super! Let's wait a day for more feedback, but it looks like most people
> are into trying this.
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > 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-
> >>>>
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> 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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