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On 9/17/15 3:51 PM, Morgan Fainberg wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Kevin Benton <blak111 at gmail.com
> <mailto:blak111 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>     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.
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> 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".
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> 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.
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I like that you have used the word encourage however, will have to
disagree here. Life in general can't permit that to everyone -- there
can be any important things pop up at unexpected time, someone on
vacation and getting late to come back etc. And on top of that people
can get caught up particularly at this week.  The time-line for
proposals is a good idea seems a good idea in general.

> 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.
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> Just a $0.02 on the timing concerns.
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> --Morgan
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 My 2 pennies worth.

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Thanks,
Nikhil