From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c06205051921356e62a018@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:35:20 -0700 From: Jack Johnson To: Vester Thacker , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Town Hall Meeting In-Reply-To: <32a656c20505191926767848ff@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <32a656c20505191926767848ff@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4dae0d78-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/19/05, Vester Thacker wrote: > If it is a weekday, then 2000 to 2100 UTC (0500-0600 JST) or a time > between 1200 to 1500 UTC (2100-midnight JST) are decent times for > us in Japan. I'm just doing the mental estimation, and I think I'm usually just rolling into work when my friend in Bergen is thinking about bed. I think you're right, 1300 UTC would probably cover a pretty decent chunk of the Plan 9 users on the planet. Though, I'm surprised that to see so much organization around an IRC meeting. Usually the power of IRC is that the meeting never really ends and you just keep handing off the topic when the terminator hits your timezone. A good log and you can grep the minutes for the areas of interest and always follow up offline or by watching the time that the other attendees of interest are on. Plus, being partial to the Pacific Rim I'm philosophically opposed to any scenario that reinforces the idea that New York is the center of the universe, Yankees be damned. Go Ichiro. :) Plus, looks like we have building interest from India, so I'd rather promote that if possible. I mean, it's not like the heavy hitters in the western hemisphere are going to drop their support just because the main meeting time doesn't fit their timezone. -Jack P.S. It seems like the OSAF does a nice blend of formal and informal with their IRC meetings, e.g. http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2003-June/002562.html