It wouldn't be such a problem if Indiana would just quit screwing with it's time zones. Or else 9 would have been just right. Blah.
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:30:19 To: fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] NA Ambassador IRC meeting
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:39 PM, vwfoxguru@gmail.com wrote:
Thursday works better for me. 7 or 8 PM EST on Tuesday or Thursday. 9 gets pretty late with my new work schedule.
7 out east is 4 out west, not good. Anything before 6 on the west coast is unlikely to be very effective at attracting people from that side of the continent. If the meeting is on a work night I have a very strong preference for Tuesday or Wednesday.
I do think the general idea of meeting when the most people can meet is a great one. I just don't think it should be voted on and changed on a monthly basis. The ambassador pool will be growing if we are successful in our mission and what is the best time will also be changing.
Another option I'll float now, even though I know there will be some resistance to it. There isn't any law requiring a weekly meeting to meet the same day and time each week. Doing otherwise has two drawbacks at least. One is that some people will just get confused about when the meeting is and miss it. The other is that we get something of a Venn diagram of participants, some attending at all times, some at one, some at another. Having a unified voice and making joint decisions at meetings is then problematic.
Despite those problems I would prefer an alternating schedule of 9pm EST on Tuesdays with another time that makes people reasonably happy the following week. If that day were Monday or Wednesday there wouldn't be much impact from long or short weeks. If the time comes when we scale back to maybe two meetings per month this might work better, 1st Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday or something like that.
John
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