Re: MCE/MCX Expert Zone chat tomorrow (Thursday) at 3 PM Pacific

From: Bill Sharpe (eschol_at_remove_this_first.shinbiro.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:48:24 +0900

How about 3AM Pacific Time. That would be 7PM (or 8pm after the DST switch
in the CONUS) here in Korea and would be perfect for me. Would probably get
participants from Korea, Japan, China, Philippines, Australia, Indochina
countries, western Russia, just to name a few.

Bill Sharpe
388037

"Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:clald9$85k$04$1@news.t-online.com...
> Maybe it's just my perception, but it seemed to me we had mostly North
> American participants, and then a few European ones. I don't recall
> noticing anyone from Asia or Australia...
>
> How about _trying out_ a different chat time and seeing what happens?
> Maybe
> you'll suddenly have much more foreign participants, maybe you'll have a
> lot of complaints from people who had attended previous chats, but can't
> make the changed time.
>
> To really have an impact, the time should be considerably different. How
> about 9 AM Pacific time? That'd be noon Eastern time, 5 PM London time and
> 6 PM Central European time.
>
> Regards,«
> --
> Robert Schlabbach
> e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
> Berlin, Germany
>
> "Todd Bowra [MSFT]" <toddbow@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:#SIR7a7tEHA.2000@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> That's certainly something we can think about; the 3 PM Pacific time was
>> selected to satisfy as many time zone as possible without putting the
>> chats
>> completely in the middle of the night.
>>
>> --
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>>
>> "Nigel Barker" <nigel@hp.com> wrote in message
>> news:jbqen0pqo5pieajih5hes4fi35db7mvs5n@4ax.com...
>> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:09:42 -0700, "Todd Bowra [MSFT]"
>> > <toddbow@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > >We are holding our monthly MCE/MCX chat in the MSN Expert Zone
>> > >tomorrow
>> > >(Thursday) at 3 PM Pacific time. This is a great opportunity to ask
>> > >MCE
>> > >experts questions about MCE 2005 and Media Center Extenders.
>> >
>> > Have you ever considered having these sessions at a more reasonable
>> > time
>> > for European participants? 3PM Pacific Time is Midnight Central
>> > European
>> > Time.
>> >
>> > Why not start at noon Pacific Time?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Nigel Barker
>> > Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
>
>
>

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