I was under the weather on Monday and couldn’t attend the meeting. Thanks for making the recording available so soon after the meeting. I was able to catch up this morning.
Please note that due to the northern hemisphere entering Daylight Savings Time soon, and the fact that (as far as I can tell) that’s where most attendees are joining from, I moved the meetup up one hour in UTC. So it’s now:
You may have gotten a new invite. If you have any objections, feel free to voice them below. If enough people think this is a bad idea, we’ll just go back to where it was before.
(I also updated the agenda and the recap post above.)
@arbrandes I do have an objection yes - the meeting was already at 5am for me before, that would put it at 4am my time. And generally, to make sure people can plan correctly, I’d rather not shift the meeting around during timezone changes (which vary for plenty of countries anyway), but keep it at a fixed time UTC, and in any case discuss it with other attendees before making any changes.
@antoviaque, alright, fair enough. I agree in principle that meeting times should not change with DST, but I found that 15:00 UTC was going to be a problem for @nimisha, and, rather naively, did not take into account that even if most attendees are in the north, not all northern countries (or states) undergo a DST change.
So, since two very important participants have a scheduling difficulty… poll time:
At what recurring time should we hold the Contributor’s Meetup?
15:00 UTC (the old time)
14:00 UTC (the new one)
0voters
Pinging the usual participants from the last few meetups:
Oops - I accidentally clicked on the poll. Please discount my vote above. I was looking to see if I could add another option.
It would be great for Xavier to continue to attend the meeting. If we make it at 14:00 UTC, I’ll need to catch up with the group afterward. (There is a standing meeting at that time with JP and other Eng directors.)
May I suggest another time: 17:00 UTC ?
This would be later in the morning for Xavier.
For ET folks it would go back and forth between the afternoon hours of: 12pm ET and 1pm ET over the course of the year.
I’m not sure how 17:00 UTC plays out for folks in other timezones though.
Yes, if either @nimisha or me can’t make it, then none of the two times work imho – we both need to be in that meeting. Since it looks like we can’t avoid changing the meeting time at all, @arbrandes could we do a whenisgood.net poll with the whole week as a choice, to maximize the number of attendees too? If we move it piecemeal we’ll just keep bumping into meeting conflict from other people imho.
As usual, please keep the following in mind, so we can maximize the “goodness” of the chosen time:
Select your timezone.
Paint over as large a range of dates and times as remotely possible - even if not necessarily comfortable.
You can keep track of results here. The chosen time will be converted to UTC so that subsequent DST changes don’t affect it. The decision will apply to the next meeting and subsequent ones.
It seems like there is no single good time for everyone: the best we did is 8 out of 10 on:
Monday 14:00 UTC
Tuesday 14:00 or 15:00 UTC
Thursday 15:00 UTC
However, of these, only Tuesday at 15:00 UTC is suitable for both @antoviaque and @nimisha. Since they handle particularly critical aspects of this meeting, I’m going to make a judgement call and elect this as the time for the following ones.
(Zoom doesn’t insert placeholders for videoless participants in the gallery recording. If you’re not on this list, this is why. Feel free to correct me!)
