RE: Gather.town hour every month?

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Sat, 13 March 2021 20:09 UTC

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Subject: RE: Gather.town hour every month?
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:09:35 -0800
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> There's 8 time zones between Prague and San Francisco, and roughly 4
> months between IETFs, so maybe move from the Prague time zone to the SF
> time zone 2 zones per meeting?

Geographic distance yields suboptimal balance. The measure of possibility of meeting depends on lots of factors. Why not just use a doodle poll, and pick times at the top 3 peaks.