- From: Kevin R. Page <krp@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:33:11 +0100
- To: public-xg-ssn@w3.org
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 21:34 +0300, hornsby wrote: > just a quick addition, Finland is period (a) EET = 23:00 - 01:00 > that's indeed pushing the "reasonable" boundaries :) Sorry Adrian, I overlooked EET! I tried to apply "least unreasonable" local hours of 06:00-24:00 to each timezone. Had I included EET the periods should have been: Period (a) UTC 20:00 - 21:00 = 06:00 - 07:00 +1 day, Western Australia = 23:00 - 24:00, Eastern Europe = 22:00 - 23:00, Central Europe = 21:00 - 22:00, UK and Ireland = 16:00 - 17:00, Eastern US Period (b) UTC 10:00 - 14:00 = 20:00 - 24:00, Western Australia = 13:00 - 17:00, Eastern Europe = 12:00 - 16:00, Central Europe = 11:00 - 15:00, UK and Ireland = 06:00 - 10:00, Eastern US Which unfortunately is a shift for the worse in Australia. Other than this amendment the proposal stands. Regards, Kevin P.S. Of course I say this sitting in the UK, where we have an unfair historical advantage meaning we're rarely at the extremes of any timezone clash... sorry... > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin R. Page <krp@ecs.soton.ac.uk> > To: public-xg-ssn@w3.org > Subject: Proposal: Timings for regular meetings > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:25:53 +0100 > > Dear all, > > Might I suggest we have a separate discussion/doodle for setting a > regular meeting slot, or pair of alternating meeting slots. I suspect > many of us can arrange our diaries around a regular time in the future, > while diaries for the upcoming couple of weeks will already be > relatively full. > > Given the wide spread of timezones [1], I propose there are only a > couple of periods of the day that are reasonable for all involved. And > I'm pushing the boundaries of "reasonable" here, as there certainly > isn't a time that'll be ideal for everyone. Please correct me if I've > got your timezone wrong! > > These are: > > Period (a) > UTC 20:00 - 22:00 > = 06:00 - 08:00 +1 day, Western Australia > = 22:00 - 24:00, Central Europe > = 21:00 - 23:00, UK and Ireland > = 16:00 - 18:00, Eastern US > > Period (b) > UTC 10:00 - 14:00 > = 20:00 - 24:00, Western Australia > = 12:00 - 16:00, Central Europe > = 11:00 - 15:00, UK and Ireland > = 06:00 - 10:00, Eastern US > > These are the *only* periods when it isn't the middle of the night for > someone. I suggest we see if we can get these to work - if we can't > we'll have to alternate between times that some participants definitely > won't be able to attend. > > I also note that the majority of *both* of these periods are > out-of-office-hours for Australia. This is not true for the other > timezones, where at least one of the periods is within office hours. > > I therefore propose we give our Australian colleagues the vote of: > > 1) alternating between an earlier and later slot both within period (b) > (to accommodate the start of the working day in the US), or > > 2) alternating between a slot in period (a) and a slot in period (b), > with the option of restricting (a) to e.g. only 22:00 UTC, or > > 3) not feasible to always have the meeting out of hours in Australia > > > Once a scheme is selected, we can doodle for days of the week/hour slots > within the periods provided. > > I think this will allow us to choose the "least worst" regular meeting > slot, where the out-of-hours inconvenience is spread as evenly as > possible amongst participants. > > > [1] from the participant list: > http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=43337 > > Regards, > > kev > Regards, kev -- Kevin R. Page krp@ecs.soton.ac.uk http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/krp Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia University of Southampton, UK
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