We couldn't get over the time zone gap.
not exactly. it was more like the time zone gap was raised...
....and it transpired that no-one could be arsed to try and work out a decent compromise and host the thing . i wou;dn't exactly blame the time zone gap for that though
more of a case of "Oh? there's a bit of a hurdle here? sorry guys, i'm a sprinter not a jumper", whch was already a pre-existing problem .
My take on the time-zone issue is this: a bunch of folk who are mostly working at ho,e, worjing irrefular hours or else not working at all; and who (mostly) can't keep regu;ar sleeping hours; meeting at stupid oçlock (for some time zones) shouldn;t be that much of a problem .Ii think it should be a damned sight easier than trying to organise an RL meeting in Britain, for example. That loses the time zone problem , but without losing the problem that different folk have different schedules. and gains the problem that travel takes time,costs money and public transport freaks some of us out. Turns out here's no working out a compromise between hard-presssed folk who won;t venture outside London and drivers who (very sensibly) won't venture
inside London. etceteras , etceteras.
I've personally tried that one. Twice, It was a roaring sucess with a different group, but I just had tp throw in the towel with our bunch, once it came rto the point that i clear;y couldn't get more than two people to agree on anything at all.
I think what i'd do with this one is pick out the folk who had the least wiggle-room (eg Pyraxis : sngle parent with a toddler , full-time job and babysitter problems, living in Canada) find out what times thry
can make it, and maybe set up two alternate meetings based round their needs; then hope and trust that the rest of us could, if interested enough. manage come in on on one or even booth ogf those alternatives. And if not, tough. Can't please everyone, wouldn't even try to please everyone, not again.
But I figure it was definitely someone e;se's turn now, and nobody volunteered.
I almost softened , TBH, but have since been persauded that a paid Zoom account is needed for hosting. Which costs getting on for 12 GBP per month
. I'm not sure, TBH. I've been at a few meetings where Zoom decided, when it came to it, to extend the host's free 40 minutes indefinitely . I've never been at a meeting where Zoom c;osed it at the end of that 40 minutes. Have heard people say ït's not a problem when that happens, you just start a new meeting" but, h,mmm, well, that's another hurdlefor our delicate, thoroughbred sprinters to baulk at, isn;t it?
So if aybody has a paid zoom account already...? I, for one,
really can't afford that 12 GPB per month.