On Mon, May 22, 2023, Chao Peng wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 04:10:27PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > PT (6am) > > MT (7am) > > CT (8am) > > ET (9am) > > WET (2pm) > > CET (3pm) > > EET (4pm) > > EST (5pm) > > CST (9pm) > > NZST (1am) > > This looks good, 9pm is not too late for PRC people. > > > > > The obvious alternative would be to invert the schedule and have the sync be in > > the evening/night for Pacific Time, but to get 6am for ARM folks, we end up with: > > > > PT (10pm) > > MT (11pm) > > CT (12pm) > > ET (1am) > > WET (6am) > > CET (7am) > > EET (8am) > > EST (9am) > > CST (1pm) > > NZST (5pm) > > > > which is quite unreasonable for pretty much everyone based in the US. Earlier > > than 6am for WET is likewise unreasonable and will result in people not attending. > > 9pm for China is also unreasonable, but I hope that it's not completely ridiculous > > and is doable enough that people can at least attend on an as-needed basis. Sorry > > Kai, as the sole representative from New Zealand, you get hosed :-( > > > > Wednesday because holidays and (short) vacations most often land at the beginning > > and end of the week. > > > > 60 minutes because I'm not waking up at dawn for anything less, and anything > > more will likely have dimishing returns, especially for folks on the edges of > > the time zone table. > > > > Lastly, the big unknown is which video communication software to use. My default > > is obviously Google Meet, but I've been told that Meet is unusable in some > > countries. :-/ My only requirements (beyond basic, obvious functionality) are > > that (a) there's a web interface (no install required) and that (b) the calls can > > be recorded. > > Google Meet should work for me, but may not for every (PRC) people. > Besides no installation, if no registration would be even better ;) > Maybe we can run with Google Meet for the first session(s) if you > havn't get one in your mind, it's not too hard to switch to alternative > at a later time right? Ya, switching should be no problem. Let's try Google Meet and go from there. Thanks much for the input! > > To kick things off, I am leaning toward a "launch" date of May 24th (Pacific), > > with KVM guest private mem (a.k.a. UPM) as the first topic. > > Thanks for driving this, yes for UPM I would definitely join. I'm going to push out the inagaural date one week until May 31st, partly to give more time for this to get widely disseminated, but mostly because I need to write down my various thoughts on where to go with UPM, and I don't think I'll get that done before Wednesday. That'll also give me time to setup a public calendar so that people can get reminders and whatnot.
