Thanks Ryan for bringing this up ! I attended several Iceberg syncs at 5 PM pacific time (9AM CST) and attended only one Iceberg sync at 9AM pacific time (1 AM CST), and have the following feelings:
1. We usually arrive at the office around 9:30AM to 10AM CST ( 5:30 PM ~ 6:00 PM pacific time). So if I plan to attend the Iceberg sync, I usually arrive at the office an hour early ( about 8:30 AM CST , it's 4:30 PM pacific time I think) . It's not a big deal for us, we're all happy with it, you know. (I've been absent from the last few iceberg syncs because of some personal things , otherwise I could have provided more input from Flink and the Chinese Iceberg community, I'm sorry for that) . I think I will keep attending the following iceberg sync if we still plan to schedule it at 5 PM pacific time. 2. For the experience about iceberg sync at 9AM pacific time ( it's 1AM CST), I remember that I intentionally set a reminder alarm on my phone before going to bed early, and then got up to attend the iceberg sync when the alarm was ringing. That was quite an exhausting experience for me, so I turned to check the iceberg sync notes and mail list to know what has happened in the past sync since that time. >From my personal perspective, If the community thinks scheduling the iceberg sync at 9AM pacific time can attract more people to attend the meetings and have a better community discussion, I'm okay with it (although I don't think I can attend this) if we could provide a detailed sync note or a screen recording to show the context. I think I will comment on the sync notes so that others from the community could know the latest progress or requirements or thoughts from our side. BTW, Chinese have a big DingDing(https://m.dingtalk.com/) group (1300+ people) to discuss iceberg issues or questions, if others are interested to know what the Chinese users are thinking about or what are the issues that they are encountering, joining the DingDing group is welcome ! It's group number is: 31584735 . You can also scan the following QR code to join the group: [image: image.png] On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 4:18 AM Ryan Blue <b...@tabular.io> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Up to now, we've been scheduling every other Iceberg sync at 5 PM pacific > time to make it easier for people in UTC+8 or similar time zones can > participate. But, I've noticed that we hardly ever have people from those > time zones joining, and quite a bit fewer people from pacific time join. On > the other hand, we have lots of people joining the meetings at 9 AM pacific > time. > > I think that given the current participation, we should stop holding every > other sync at 5 pm and schedule all of them at 9 am to reach the most > people. Does this sound reasonable? > > I know that there are probably quite a few people in China interested in a > sync in CST / UTC+8, so I think we should also explore ways to make those > easier for people to attend. Would another time or service work better? > What about having a local sync set up and run by the part of the community > in China? > > Ryan > > -- > Ryan Blue > Tabular >
