[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 date & first IRC public meeting

[phoebe ayers]

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&year=2007&p1=241&p2=53&p3=217&p4=83
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 at 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
>
>