On 12/05/2013 14:25, Rubén Martín wrote:
After a long discussion on mozillians list
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/mozilla.mozillians/AA7nu8_jiYI>,
I want to bring this topic here with a proposal:
I really like the idea for having the link in the posting to an
appropriate timezone converter, that's good, its something I've been
doing for a while.
We *can go further*.
Taking a thought from the previous thread on mozillians:
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I'm thinking that this is enough of a pain point to seriously consider a
calendar tool integrated into Mozillians.org, which would not only do
the time zone conversion, but also show possible conflicts to
organizers, show each Mozillian "their" meetings based on their groups.
affiliations, invitations, and explicit subscriptions, and provide an
ical feed to subscribe to, provide templates for sending out mail (and
optionally, send those out automatically to the right mailing lists),
automatically create etherpads for each meeting for the agenda and
minutes, and so on. If such a tool were easy enough to use, and tightly
integrated, it wouldn't take much work to gently steer everyone there,
at which point the problem would largely go away.
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I think that having some form of meeting organiser tool(s) that would:
a) provide calendar subscribe options
b) provide emails/newsgroup posts for regular meeting updates
(automatically generated)
c) provide wiki (or other) insertion/updates
would alleviate the issues of choosing a 'host' timezone for the
organiser, but also provider options for attendees receiving the
information to select what works best for them, and to get the right
time every time.
If the tools were all automatic, then it wouldn't matter how we
represent timezones.
Do we have tools to do this already? What would it take to go the extra
steps?
Mark.
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