Alternating meeting time?

[Andrew Overholt]

Many of our esteemed colleagues in Asia (notably people in Mozilla's
Taipei office) have a difficult time attending our meetings as they are
at a bad time for them (see [1] for the difficulty here). Regardless of
what we do with the meeting time, I think we should start recording the
meetings so people can see/hear the discussion if they miss out.

Options for meeting time adjustment include:

- move meeting 2 hours earlier (8 AM in California, 23:00 in Taipei)
- alternate every 2nd meeting to 5 hours earlier (5 AM in California,
20:00 in Taipei)

How do people feel about this? Any other suggestions?

[1]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=7&day=23&year=2013&p1=224&p2=250&p3=136&p4=195&p5=241&iv=0

[Paul Theriault]

Speaking from a selfish perspective (australia), this would be great ;) But even meeting notes would be much appreciated.

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[Andrew Overholt]

Rough meeting notes are kept on the etherpad [1] and archived on the
wiki [2] each week.

[1]
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

[2]
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI#Meetings

[James Ho]

Thanks for the thoughtful suggestion...:-)

If there were a chance to move the time, I would guess the first option (8AM PT, 11PM CST) sounds a little bit better for both timezones.

And taking meeting notes is great!

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[Ehsan Akhgari]

On 2013-07-19 5:14 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> Many of our esteemed colleagues in Asia (notably people in Mozilla's
> Taipei office) have a difficult time attending our meetings as they are
> at a bad time for them (see [1] for the difficulty here). Regardless of
> what we do with the meeting time, I think we should start recording the
> meetings so people can see/hear the discussion if they miss out.
>
> Options for meeting time adjustment include:
>
> - move meeting 2 hours earlier (8 AM in California, 23:00 in Taipei)
> - alternate every 2nd meeting to 5 hours earlier (5 AM in California,
> 20:00 in Taipei)
>
> How do people feel about this? Any other suggestions?

Both of these times looks good to me (with a selfish preference over the
first one), but I would really like if we could avoid changing the
meeting times, as I'm afraid that can confuse people... But if the
first time slot is not really workable for the Taipei folks, I guess
giving them a chance to attend every other meeting is a lot better than
the current situation...

Cheers,
Ehsan

[Thinker K.F. Li]

I favor first time slot. The 2nd one (20:00@Taipei) is too early to get
home, and a little late to stay at office. But, the 2nd one still works
for me.

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[Mark Giffin]

On 7/19/13 4:31 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> On 2013-07-19 5:14 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>> Many of our esteemed colleagues in Asia (notably people in Mozilla's
>> Taipei office) have a difficult time attending our meetings as they are
>> at a bad time for them (see [1] for the difficulty here). Regardless of
>> what we do with the meeting time, I think we should start recording the
>> meetings so people can see/hear the discussion if they miss out.
>>
>> Options for meeting time adjustment include:
>>
>> - move meeting 2 hours earlier (8 AM in California, 23:00 in Taipei)
>> - alternate every 2nd meeting to 5 hours earlier (5 AM in California,
>> 20:00 in Taipei)
>>
>> How do people feel about this? Any other suggestions?

The only person in California who attends these meetings is me. Sheppy
is 3 hours ahead of me (EDT, same as Andrew O.) and Jeremie is in Paris.
I much prefer late nights (as late as 10pm/2200 or 1030pm/2230). I would
rather not do very early mornings (5am).

Regards,
Mark Giffin

[Hsin-Yi Tsai]

Thanks for the suggestion! I vote for Option 1 (8 AM in California,
23:00 in Taipei), which is better for me to attend and seems better for
both timezones as well.

Best regards,
Hsinyi

On 2013年07月20日 05:14, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> Many of our esteemed colleagues in Asia (notably people in Mozilla's
> Taipei office) have a difficult time attending our meetings as they
> are at a bad time for them (see [1] for the difficulty here).
> Regardless of what we do with the meeting time, I think we should
> start recording the meetings so people can see/hear the discussion if
> they miss out.
>
> Options for meeting time adjustment include:
>
> - move meeting 2 hours earlier (8 AM in California, 23:00 in Taipei)
> - alternate every 2nd meeting to 5 hours earlier (5 AM in California,
> 20:00 in Taipei)
>
> How do people feel about this? Any other suggestions?
>

> [1]
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=7&day=23&year=2013&p1=224&p2=250&p3=136&p4=195&p5=241&iv=0
>
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[Andrew Overholt]

Feedback seems to be in favour of moving the weekly meeting 2 hours
earlier to 8 AM Pacific / 17:00 Europe / 23:00 Taipei.

Barring me receiving any strongly negative reactions this week, we'll
start with this time next week, July 30th.