Re: Office Hours today _at_ 18:00 UTC - Core Candidates

On 2020-05-30 22:53:42 (+0800), Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2020-05-27 22:01, Philip Paeps wrote:
>> On 2020-05-27 22:35:14 (+0800), Allan Jude wrote:
>>> Sorry for the late notice, I thought I sent this last week.
>>>
>>> After the slate of candidates was finalized last week, I invited all 
>>> of them to join a live stream today at 18:00 UTC to answer questions 
>>> from the FreeBSD Community.
>>
>> Do you ever plan to schedule one of these at a time that works for 
>> those of us in the eastern hemisphere?
>>
>> 18:00 UTC is 02:00 in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, 03:00 in Japan and 
>> 04:00 in the east of Australia to name but a couple of places where 
>> we have sizeable (or at least non-zero) populations of FreeBSD 
>> developers.
>>
>> I'm sure we can watch the recordings after the fact, but I'm sure 
>> some of us would also welcome the opportunity to ask questions in 
>> real time.
>
> Philip: We did one at 02:00 UTC on April 16th. But attendance was only 
> ~20, compared to ~65 for the 18:00 UTC slot.
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/OfficeHours
>
> Would you be willing to help host/promote another attempt for a more 
> Asia friendly time?

I must have missed that announcement.  All the other ones were at 18:00 
UTC (02:00 Asia/Hong_Kong).

Thanks for the pointer.  I'm happy to join if it's not at crazy o'clock 
in the morning. :-)

It would be good to alternate between "convenient for the far west" and 
"convenient for the far east".

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises