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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Kevin Benton <blak111 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It guarantees that if you hit the date deadline local time, that you won't
> miss the deadline. It doesn't matter if there are extra hours afterwards.
> The idea is that it gets rid of the need to do time zone conversions.
>
> If we are trying to do some weird optimization where everyone wants to
> submit in the last 60 seconds, then sure AOE isn't great for that because
> you still have to convert. It doesn't seem to me like that's what we are
> trying to do though.
>
Alternatively you give a UTC time (which all of our meetings are in anyway)
and set the deadline. Maybe we should be setting the deadline to the
western-most timezone (UTC-11/-12?) 23:59 as the deadline. This would
simply do what you're stating without having to explain AOE more concretely
than "submit by 23:59 your tz day X".

I think this is all superfluous however and we should simply encourage
people to not wait until the last minute. Waiting to see who is
running/what the field looks like isn't as important as standing up and
saying you're interested in running.

You shouldn't worry about hurting anyone's feelings by running and more
importantly most PTLs will be happy to have someone else shoulder some of
the weight; by tossing your name into the ring it signals you're willing to
help out in this regard. I know that as a PTL (an outgoing one at that)
having this clear signal would raise an individual towards the top of the
list for asking if they want the responsibility delegated to them as it was
indicated they already wanted to be part of leadership for the project.

Just a $0.02 on the timing concerns.

--Morgan
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