- From: John Graybeal <graybeal@mbari.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:20:58 -0700
- To: "Kevin R. Page" <krp@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-xg-ssn@w3.org
As I'm Western US, moving the second one to the 0800 - 1000 time slot would be most helpful (means I only have to get up at 5 AM, not 3 AM). I realize that may disadvantage Western Australia (what? no Eastern Australia?), so I'll take what comes. John On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Kevin R. Page wrote: > 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 > > John -------------- John Graybeal <mailto:graybeal@mbari.org> -- 831-775-1956 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: http://marinemetadata.org
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