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<p class="MsoPlainText">+1 for Option #2: alternate between Monday 1700 UTC && Tuesday 0500 UTC<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Wanyen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 01:00:04AM +0000, Devananda van der Veen wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> As discussed in Paris and at today's IRC meeting [1] we are going to be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> alternating the time of the weekly IRC meetings to accommodate our<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> contributors in EMEA better. No time will be perfect for everyone, but as<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> it stands, we rarely (if ever) see our Indian, Chinese, and Japanese<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> contributors -- and it's quite hard for any of the AU / NZ folks to attend.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> I'm proposing two sets of times below. Please respond with a "-1" vote to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> an option if that option would cause you to miss ALL meetings, or a "+1"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> vote if you can magically attend ALL the meetings. If you can attend,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> without significant disruption, at least one of the time slots in a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> proposal, please do not vote either for or against it. This way we can<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> identify a proposal which allows everyone to attend at a minimum 50% of the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> meetings, and preferentially weight towards one that allows more<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> contributors to attend two meetings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> This link shows the local times in some major coutries / timezones around<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> the world (and you can customize it to add your own).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20141125&p1=224&p2=179&p3=78&p4=367&p5=44&p6=33&p7=248&p8=5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> For reference, the current meeting time is 1900 UTC.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Option #1: alternate between Monday 1900 UTC && Tuesday 0900 UTC. I like<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> this because 1900 UTC spans all of US and western EU, while 0900 combines<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> EU and EMEA. Folks in western EU are "in the middle" and can attend all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> meetings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2014&month=11&day=24&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&p2=179&p3=78&p4=367&p5=44&p6=33&p7=248&p8=5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2014&month=11&day=25&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&p2=179&p3=78&p4=367&p5=44&p6=33&p7=248&p8=5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> Option #2: alternate between Monday 1700 UTC && Tuesday 0500 UTC. I like<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> this because it shifts the current slot two hours earlier, making it easier<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> for eastern EU to attend without excluding the western US, and while 0500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> UTC is not so late that US west coast contributors can't attend (it's 9PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> for us), it is harder for western EU folks to attend. There's really no one<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> in the middle here, but there is at least a chance for US west coast and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> EMEA to overlap, which we don't have at any other time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2014&month=11&day=24&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&p2=179&p3=78&p4=367&p5=44&p6=33&p7=248&p8=5<o:p></o:p></p>
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