- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:17:55 -0400 (EDT)
- To: geoff freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>
- cc: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, w3c-wai-eo-request@w3.org
Wouldn't help the Pacific Rim - 2 pm is 4am in Melbourne. The Pacific rim timezones are two or three hours either side of that... Charles On 13 Apr 2000, geoff freed wrote: would moving to a mid-day meeting, like 2:00pm boston time, help anyone? On Wednesday, April 12, 2000, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote: >WAI EOWG: > >Any comments on Gregory's comment here? > >A few thoughts: This proposed alternate EOWG meeting time is by no means >mandatory -- it is an auxiliary meeting slot, so if individuals also active >in the WCAG WG choose that meeting over the EOWG meeting, that is fine; >what seems problematic is that the 4:00 p.m. US Eastern is now too early to >be a useful time for anyone who might be interested in this group from >Japan or Australia/Eastern Time. And I've got a conflict if we move it >later on Thursday. > >Comments welcome. > >Judy > >At 06:30 PM 4/5/00 -0400, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: >>aloha, judy! >> >>on the list of upcoming meetings contained on the EO home page >><http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/#Meetings> >>there is a meeting scheduled for 4pm on Thursday, April 13, which conflicts >>with the regularly scheduled Web Contents Guidelines (GL) working group's >>teleconference (Thursdays at 4pm, Boston time -- check >><http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/#UpcomingMeetings> for further details) >> >>this, i fear, will prove problematic, as the alternate Thursday telecons >>for the EO WG were expressly set up for the benefit of those who can't >>participate in the regularly scheduled EO meetings due to the hour -- >>8:30am Boston time -- at which they are held... in particular, it was >>deemed an appropriate time to facillitate participation in the EO WG for >>individuals living on slash in the Pacific Rim... >> >>the problem with the conflict, therefore, is that the GL working group is >>what one might call deeply Aussie-fied -- as it is co-chaired by an >>Australian, and has several other key Australian members (namely Charles >>and Tim) who participate regularly in the GL call... >> >>one last point -- given that the U.S. and Europe have turned their clocks >>forward, whilst others have turned theirs back, 4pm boston time is now >>awfully early for people living in the pacific rim -- according to my >>calculations, it translates into 8am in New Zealand (Auckland time), 6am in >>Australia (Melbourne time), and 5am in Japan (Tokyo time), which defeats >>the purpose of having an alternate meeting time... would it, therefore, be >>possible to reschedule the alternate EO meeting at a later time -- perhaps >>8pm Boston time? >> >>is this as big a problem as i anticipate it might prove to be? i know that >>i would prefer to participate in a Thursday meeting myself, as i have a >>recurring conflict with the Friday meeting time... if. however, i have to >>choose between GL and EO, i will opt for the former... i'd rather not be >>faced with an either-or choice, but if -- for logistical reasons -- the >>alternate call is locked into a 4pm Boston time slot, then i will only be >>able to participate in EO via the list... >> >>gregory >>-------------------------------------------------------- >>He that lives on Hope, dies farting >> -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 >>-------------------------------------------------------- >>Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> >> WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC >> <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html> >>-------------------------------------------------------- >> >-- >Judy Brewer jbrewer@w3.org +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI >Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office >World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) >MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, >02139, USA > -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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