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On 10/30/19 10:45 PM, Fang, Liang A wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I agree with Rajat. Meeting happened in mid-night will prevent people to
> attend, except they have topics that must to talk with team.
> 
> Openstack is widely used in Asia, but there’s no much core from Asia (in
> countries that the meeting in mid-night). Meeting time is one of the
> reason😊

I agree, the current meeting time is not Asia-friendly.  If we move the
meeting 2 hours earlier (14:00 UTC), that's 6:00 a.m. on USA Pacific
Coast, which is on the verge of not being Silicon Valley-friendly.  So
it would be good to hear from our Silicon Valley time zone contributors
(we have at least 3 who attend fairly regularly).

> 
> Nova have two meetings, two time zone friendly. But I don’t like to
> divide the meeting to two.
> 

I agree, I'd prefer not to do this unless there's no other way to work
out a suitable time.  Here's a chart that shows you what we're up against:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20191120&p1=224&p2=179&p3=141&p4=44&p5=237&p6=248

We discussed this issue briefly at this week's Cinder meeting, and since
we're hoping to pick up some new contributors at the Summit/PTG next
week, we agreed to take a poll after the PTG so that new contributors
can represent their respective time zones.

In the meantime, it would be good to keep this ML discussion going --
maybe someone will have a creative idea for a solution that won't
adversely impact any contributors!
  
> 
> Regards
> 
> Liang
> 
> *From:* Rajat Dhasmana <rajatdhasmana at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:54 AM
> *To:* Brian Rosmaita <rosmaita.fossdev at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* openstack-discuss at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [cinder] changing the weekly meeting time
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
>  
> 
> It's great that the change in weekly meeting time is considered, here
> are my opinions on the same from the perspective of Asian countries
> (having active upstream developers)
> 
>  
> 
> Current meeting time (16:00 - 17:00 UTC)
> 
>  
> 
> INDIA : is 9:30 - 10:30 PM IST (UTC+05:30) is a little late but manageable.
> 
>  
> 
> CHINA : is 12:00 - 01:00 AM CST (UTC+08:00) is almost impossible to attend.
> 
>  
> 
> JAPAN : is 01:00 - 02:00 AM JST (UTC+09:00) similar to the case as China.
> 
>  
> 
> IMO shifting the meeting time 2 hours earlier (UTC 14:00) might bring
> more participation and would ease out timings for some (including me)
> but these are just my thoughts.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> 
> Rajat Dhasmana
> 
>  
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 3:05 AM Brian Rosmaita
> <rosmaita.fossdev at gmail.com <mailto:rosmaita.fossdev at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     (Just to be completely clear -- we're only gathering information at this
>     point.  The Cinder weekly meeting is still Wednesdays at 16:00 UTC.)
> 
>     As we discussed at today's meeting [0], a request has been made to hold
>     the weekly meeting earlier so that it would be friendlier for people in
>     Asia time zones.
> 
>     Based on the people in attendance today, it seems that a move to 14:00
>     UTC is not out of the question.
> 
>     Thus, the point of this email is to solicit comments on whether we
>     should change the meeting time to 14:00 UTC.  As you consider the impact
>     on yourself, if you are in a TZ that observes Daylight Savings Time,
>     keep in mind that most TZs go back to standard time over the next
>     few weeks.
> 
>     (I was going to insert an opinion here, but I will wait and respond in
>     this thread like everyone else.)
> 
>     cheers,
>     brian
> 
> 
>     [0]
>     http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2019/cinder.2019-10-23-16.00.log.html#l-166
>