Re: Announcing times of interim meetings

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

On 2/13/20 9:53 AM, Brian Haberman wrote:
>
> On 2/13/20 5:45 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>> Two things to be aware of:
>>      1) there is a ics feed of all virtual interim meetings
>>         https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.ics
>>         I believe that this is driven directly by the data tracker inputs
>>         from when you push the virtual-interim meeting button request.
>>         Subscribe to it, then copy the things that are relevant to you into
>>         your own calendar.
>>
> Thanks for the pointer. I was not aware of this feed and I suspect most
> regular WG participants are not aware of it either.
also, it's on the top level menus (at Meetings->Upcoming).
>
>>      2) While announcing a specific meeting in UTC is reasonable, it turns out
>>         that this does not perfectly work for everyone.  The CELLAR meeting is
>>         anchored, for instance, to 9pm CET, because that's the time that the
>>         participants (mostly central european) want.  So that means it wanders
>>         around in March and October if you aren't in CET.
> I don't see the relationship. The only requirement would be for the
> CELLAR chairs to *announce* their meeting time in UTC for each
> occurrence. If they anchor it to a time in a specific timezone, that's
> ok as long as the announcements state the UTC time.
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>