[Foundation-l] strategic planning office hours today

[Alexandr Romanov]

I appreciate that the Wikipedia Office is based in the US, and that the
staff there have time constraints. However, I feel it is a shame that
meetings like this take place at hours which are unlikely to attract users
from Europe (UTC to UTC+5) and Africa (UTC-1 to UTC+4).

Obviously, with timezones varying so greatly throughout the world we will
never be able to satisfy everyone, and I realise that not all meetings are
held at this time (and yes, I have missed the other recent meetings which
were at a better time for me (UTC) here in Morocco), but I just wanted to
highlight that 4am for people based in UK/Ireland/Western Africa, 5am in
Western Europe, and 6am Central Europe is not conducive for our
participation.

Have meetings been tried at 9am West Coast Pacific time (I presume so)?
Whilst this may present other problems (people being at work), it might
avoid the problems of people being fast asleep.

Just my musings on trying to encourage participation from a wider
international base.

Александр Дмитрий
Alexandr Dmitri

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2009/11/10 Eugene Eric Kim <eekim at blueoxen.com>

> Hi everyone,
>
> Strategic Planning office hours are tonight, Wednesday, November 11,
> from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: 8-9pm PST, 11pm-12am EST.
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