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

[Nicholas Rishel]

Since the new schedule isn't as predictable as weekly on a Sunday I spun up
a quick Google Calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cqqj4ohm2oaeceenhmghbf28t8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York>
.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:16 PM xglasyliax . <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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