Virtual Wineconf?

[Aric Stewart]

Jan 15/16 is the only weekend I have a conflict in the entire month. But other than that I do not have a strong preference as to the date but just as a heads up if we are going to call for presentations we want presenters to have time to write their talks.   I would vote later in the mont then as we are already Dec 1st.

I am happy to take on the organizing of the time slots role again, assuming we still want to organized it that time.

I am thinking this could be an easy way to open up to an even larger audience also.  If our talks can be viewed by anyone online then if we get it all scheduled and published before hand we can get casual observers dropping in for given talks and such.

-aric


On 11/27/20 4:04 PM, Austin English wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 1:10 PM Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com <mailto:jwhite at codeweavers.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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.
> -- 
> -Austin
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