Re: [Geotools-devel] Meeting timeslots, and attendence, and stepping aside

[David Z. <dav...@gm...>]

FYI ... The dates proposed are for Sunday night in North America ...

DZ


On 12/14/05, Jody Garnett <jga...@re...> wrote:
>
> Ian Turton wrote:
> >
> >     Having you guys at a meeting would be great - I think we should
> >     probably
> >     place a time cap on them as well.
> >     Vancouver    12:00     noon
> >     Bangkok       03:00     3am
> >     Johannesburg 22:00  10pm
> >     Wellington     09:00     9am
> >
> >
> > PennState 3pm - which would work
> >
> >     Um where are you based out of Ian? I will be Johannesburg with a
> crop
> >     trying to introduce a team to open source devel work, and would
> >     like to
> >     have a useful IRC session to attend, open process and all that. If
> >     attendance is at 10pm then so be it ;-)
> >
> >
> > I'm at PennState now so I'm at UTC -5
> >
> >     I was thinking of something towards 05:00 UTC:
> >     - Vancouver     21:00   9pm
> >     - Bangkok       12:00    noon
> >     - Johannesubug 07:00  7am
> >     - Wellignton     18:00   7pm
> >
> >
> > PennState =3D 12Midnight - so I'm guessing not for me
> If it was moved back an hour (yawn) would it work for you? It would be
> 11pm, and pretty harsh for euope
>
> So we got three ideas:
> - Timeslot #1  20:00 UTC (Monday)
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3D19&month=3D12&=
year=3D2005&hour=3D20&min=3D0&sec=3D0&p1=3D0
> - Timeslot #2   5:00 UTC (Monday)
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3D19&month=3D12&=
year=3D2005&hour=3D5&min=3D0&sec=3D0&p1=3D0
> - Timeslot #2.5 4:00 UTC (Monday)
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3D19&month=3D12&=
year=3D2005&hour=3D4&min=3D0&sec=3D0&p1=3D0
> - A Time cap of 45 minuets
>
> We can see how GEOS does with two time slots, if successful we could
> match their lead.
> Rather then vote on this issue I would rather decide based on
> attendance, it does us no good
> to vote and then have nobody show up - as has happened previously.
>
> I will attend each of the above timeslots and see what happens :-)
>
> Speaking of attendance, it is ironic that I am trying to get this
> discussion going while at the
> same time I will be working from abroad and am not sure how often I will
> be able to attend
> these meetings (from Jan to May).
>
> If I can ask for a volunteer to step in and keep things going? Remember
> votes are by
> "module maintainers" and you don't need to vote to run these meetings,
> just help with
> an agenda and collect the IRC logs. (PMC only vote on things like press
> and policy
> under strict guidelines in the developers guide).
>
> If possible I would like to maintain my role as PMC, and like Rueben
> will be sure to read
> the IRC logs, and vote issues as needed. (If that does not work out I
> will be happy to step
> aside until the summer).
>
> Jody
>
>
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