Virtual Wineconf?

[Austin English]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 1:10 PM Jeremy White <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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