MEIG meeting schedule

[chrisn]

The MEIG co-chairs are considering whether to change our regular monthly call schedule to make participation easier.

Currently, we have a timeslot that's early in morning US Pacific, afternoon in Europe, and late night in Asia and we would like to understand whether changing this could help make participation in our meetings easier for you.

We propose to cycle our meetings between three different timeslots, from one of the options below.

Option 1: UK, Europe, US times are fixed with respect to daylight savings

		UTC	US Pacific	US Eastern	UK	Europe	China	Japan
(1)	November-March	06:00	22:00	01:00	6:00	7:00	14:00	15:00
	April-October	05:00	22:00	01:00	6:00	7:00	13:00	14:00
(2)	November-March	15:00	07:00	10:00	15:00	16:00	23:00	00:00
	April-October	14:00	07:00	10:00	15:00	16:00	22:00	23:00
(3)	November-March	22:00	14:00	17:00	22:00	23:00	06:00	07:00
	April-October	21:00	14:00	17:00	22:00	23:00	05:00	06:00

Option 2: The UTC time is fixed, so UK, Europe, US times vary with daylight savings

		UTC	US Pacific	US Eastern	UK	Europe	China	Japan
(1)	November-March	06:00	22:00	01:00	06:00	07:00	14:00	15:00
	April-October	06:00	23:00	02:00	07:00	08:00	14:00	15:00
(2)	November-March	14:00	06:00	09:00	14:00	15:00	21:00	22:00
	April-October	14:00	07:00	10:00	15:00	16:00	21:00	22:00
(3)	November-March	22:00	14:00	17:00	22:00	23:00	06:00	07:00
	April-October	22:00	14:00	17:00	23:00	00:00	06:00	07:00

[digitaltvguy]

Ideally we can rotate this time for U.S.. Option 1 is ideal.

[digitaltvguy]

Option 1 is preferred

[ashimura]

Thanks a lot for raising this issue @chrisn !

BTW, it seems there are some typos in the option 1 table, and I think the "(2)" rows should be:

		UTC	US Pacific	US Eastern	UK	Europe	China	Japan
(2)	November-March	15:00	07:00	10:00	15:00	16:00	23:00	00:00
	April-October	14:00	07:00	10:00	15:00	16:00	22:00	23:00

[chrisn]

My mistake, thanks @ashimura. I have updated the table above. I hope this hasn't affected the survey results.