I suggest that Sundays might be a good day, at least for me.  Don't know if this helps others?  I cannot access IRC while I am at work, which means I'm only available M-F, 00:00 to 07:00 UTC.  However, I am usually available on Sundays, pretty much anytime.  In Egypt, don't you observe the weekend on Friday-Saturday? so don't know if Sunday would be acceptable or good for you?  Or rotating times/days also works, so maybe I can make some of the sessions.

Of course, don't know how necessary my participation is at this point. I would like to help with scholarships (help find funding), and other ways I can help.  Just to let you know, I may be in Cairo for the summer (June - August), to take part in the summer language program.  I know Cairo isn't that close to Alexandria, but it might makes it easier for me to help.

Regards (تحياتي)
Aude


On Dec 10, 2007 12:36 PM, Florence Devouard <fdevouard@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Well, I happen to disagree.
We already held 3 wikimanias, and I think a big part of their success
was because it was organized by wikipedians from every part of the
planet. Of course, there was always more local people involved, but
there was not ONLY local people;
When it comes to the very practical organization (such as accomodations,
decoration of the rooms and other renting of microphone, it is cleaer
the local team will be first on the front and it makes sense to choose
meeting times which primarily fit with their schedule.

However, when it comes to stuff like program, international involvement
is expected and priority should be given to accomodating as many of
people as possible. If that involves making smaller action groups or
rotating hours of meetings, so be it. We will never be able to satisfy
everyone. But we can make efforts.


Ant

 Smart Robots wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Since Egypt is the country which will hold the wikimania for 2008 so I
> think it's so wisely from Mido to adjust the time according to egypt
> timing as the volunteers ( that will organize it ) can easily be founded
> , I know these meetings have participations from all over the world.
>
> No offense
> And this is not official I am just a subscriber !!
>
> */Aphaia <aphaia@gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>     Corr.
>
>     for me 5am, for Titan (and KJ) 4am.
>     While I know some people like this hour (e.g. Board election debate,
>     ComProj meetings), I am worried this tendency to hold Wikimedia
>     relation around 18-20 UTC, moreover to say it "hour good for everyone"
>     (while Mido didn't call it so wisely). Simply there is no such hour
>     which is good for everyone.
>
>     Again, time rotation is the best solution in my opinion.
>
>     On Dec 10, 2007 11:42 AM, Aphaia wrote:
>      > On Dec 10, 2007 11:22 AM, E wrote:
>      > > Exactly, it's 4am here in Australia... possibly 20:00UTC would be
>      > > preferable.
>      >
>      > Not really: 20UTC is for me 4am.
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