1) I can make the meeting tomorrow, I believe; see you then!
2) IIRC 16:00UTC turned out to be the optimal time for public meetings when we were trying to include both the Americas and Asia. 16:00-UTC means: - midnight Taipei - 6:00 pm Cairo - 8:00 am SF - 11:00 am Boston - 5:00 pm Frankfurt - 4:00 pm London - 9:30 pm Dehli
The only city 16:00 UTC is really bad for is Sydney, where it's 3:00am.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=12&day=10&a... For meetings at this time, we probably need to hold them on the weekends for the sake of Europeans & N. Americans.
The alternative is to hold meetings at 8:00/9:00 UTC -- this is good for everyone except the east coast of N. America, where it's 2 or 3 am.
3) What makes sense to me is to implement time rotation, and try to choose public meeting times that work well for everyone, but give slight preference to the needs of the Egyptians -- it is their conference this year, and we should obviously meet at times that work for them. It may be easiest when work gets going to split into smaller groups and have those groups meet at times that work for the people in those groups; that's what we did in 2006.
-- phoebe
On Dec 10, 2007 12:53 PM, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
SJ Klein wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Cary Bass wrote:
Anirudh wrote:
IDear all,
It is going to be pretty late in the night for most of the Asians. ( 11:30 PM IST ) Wouldn't it be possible to come to a consensus via discussion so that most of us would be able to comfortably attend the meeting? Just a thought.
We held the last bidding meeting at 15:00 UTC, which seemed to work for almost everyone in the world. I think it would suck for Alaska, Hawaii and Fiji--but the rest...
It's not so hot for Australia; nor even for Japan & San Francisco. SJ
Not so hot but manageable for all of them. Yes, it's early for San Francisco...we'll have to learn to wake up real early :)
-- Cary