Version 71 of Monthly Virtual Meetup

Updated 2024-01-10 04:00:35 by stevel

The monthly Tcl Virtual Meetup is held the second Tuesday of each month, the time varies from month-to-month to accomodate various timezones.

The next meetup will be held [clock format 1702972800] Tuesday 19 December 2023 at 12am US West, 2am US Central, 3am US East, , 8am UK, 9am Western Europe, 1:30pm India, 4pm Australia West / Singapore / China, 5pm Japan, 7pm Australia East, 9pm New Zealand

One topic might be the current malaise with comp.lang.tcl due to the spam being introduced via Google Groups, plus a discussion of the options for replacing Google Groups once it is retired in Feb 2024.

The meeting is held using the Open Source Jitsi video conferencing facility via this link

We have moved to a fixed, rotating schedule with the focus on a different region each month. For 2024 this will be:

DateFocusClock
January 9Americas1704852000
February 13Europe1707850800
March 12Asia/Pacific1710234000
April 9Americas1712710800
May 14Europe1715709600
June 11Asia/Pacific1718100000
July 9Americas1720573200
August 13Europe1723572000
September 10Asia/Pacific1725962400
October 8Americas1728435600
November 12Europe1731438000
December 10Asia/Pacific1733821200

The scheduled times (before adjusting for daylight saving time) are:

LocationAmericasEuropeAPAC
UTC0200 + 1 day19001000
UK0200 + 1 day19001000
Western Europe0300 + 1 day20001100
India0730 + 1 day0030 + 1 day1530
Western Australia1000 + 1 day0300 + 1 day1800
Eastern Australia1200 + 1 day0500 + 1 day2000
New Zealand1400 + 1 day0700 + 1 day2200
Western US180011000200
Central US200013000400
Eastern US210014000500

with adjustment for daylight saving time (i.e. the 2000 stays but other zones are adjusted if they are not on DST).

Notes from previous meetings: