I echo Benny and Jeromy's concern that the new proposed time is rather unhelpful to the two Asian teams.
Last time the Hong Kong team had great difficulty getting people together for the meeting; making it Sunday 11pm simply makes things worse as Jeromy pointed out. (To be fair, 12 or 13 UTC would be much better for us, but we understand several jurors are on the Americas.)
I'm disappointed that both IRC meetings had to be rearranged at such short notice. I hope a compromise time that will fit as many bidding teams and jurors as possible can be found; I think individual jurors and other Wikimedians who can't make the meeting can always continue to participate in the Q&A phase via meta or this mailing list.
Deryck On Apr 10, 2012 8:16 AM, "Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan" < jerry.tschan.yu@gmail.com> wrote:
We, Hong Kong, strongly against the time change, as that means a meeting time for us will be at 11pm on Sunday Highly undesirable for us as the next day IS a working weekday of Monday
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On 10 Apr, 2012, at 3:01, James Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com wrote:
All (and especially the bidding teams),
The second IRC meeting is scheduled for 14:00 UTC on 14 April 2012, but unfortunately a number of Jury members cannot make that time, so we would like to move it forward by 25 hours - to 15:00 UTC on 15 April 2012[*].
If any bid-team members would have difficulty making this, please shout and we'll see if we can find a time that works. Otherwise, see you on #wikimania then.
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikimania+2013+Seco...
Yours,
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