I've privately asked Aric if he would be willing to help organize a call
for presentations and so on, and he agreed.
Great!
We have Arek willing to take care of the very hard logistics of
coordinating this, so I feel like we should try it.
Agreed.
It might be fair for us, as a community, to give Aric and Arek some
guidelines. Things like how many days, what time of day, what time of
year, and so on.
I'm going to seed this with a suggestion, but I have no strong feelings
about it. That is, rather than doing this over a weekend, as we usually
do, how about if do this on a Friday/Saturday, and run from 15:00 GMT
until 21:00 GMT each day [1] []2.
For timing, how about the middle of January? The 15th/16th?
Seems reasonable, though I'm not sure how much time Aric/Arek need to get prepped?
Again, I'm just seeding the discussion. Thoughts?
Cheers,
Jeremy
[1] This might be a bit long; we were running quite light on proposals
for the last Wineconf, and I fear we may hit the same. I'd tend to say
we just shorten the windows to respond to that.
[2] My rationale is that I hope that Pacific time folks can wake up
early (7:00 am) to participate, and Asian folks can stay up late (22:00
in Japan) to do the same. I was also sort of hoping that would be
easier for Europeans to get off work on the Friday, but maybe that's a
pointless issue these days.
Heh, I think it's worth trying to find a good time, but as you said, with so many people WFH, I don't think timezones mean as much anymore.