Stream: dev

Topic: Europe-friendly tech hours


view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Jul 08 2026 at 19:41):

@Eryk Kulikowski @Oliver Bertuch @Vera Clemens now that there are three of you on the core team that live in Europe I'm thinking we should move tech hours to be earlier in the day.

If we don't move it, our next tech hours will be at this time (it should show in your timezone):

Pretty late for you, right? What would be a better time? It doesn't have to be on Tuesdays!

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Jul 09 2026 at 06:57):

I assume our business hours are the usual till . There is that small overlap between our 14:00 to 17:00 matching up with your business hours. So that is probably the possible time frame if we want to stay within everybody's hours. This might narrow down if we ever add core members from Portugal (-1h) or Latvia (+1h).

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Jul 09 2026 at 06:59):

That said, the current 21:00 usually/mostly works for me. I'm an :owl: so I don't mind. It's paid work time, too, as per exception from my employer.

view this post on Zulip Vera Clemens (Jul 09 2026 at 08:06):

I'd be able to join anything with an end time up to . Past that, I'm usually not available.

Any day of the week works for me. Only possible conflict in my calendar is the newly added Frontend Group meeting on Thursdays, but you've probably got that on your radar as well :smile:

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Jul 09 2026 at 19:13):

Here's a thought (that I haven't run by people in my time zone yet!)...

Currently the community call is the first Tuesday of the month at 10am Boston time, this week.

What if tech hours was at the same time, but when the community call is happening we all go to that instead? (Or some of us skip the community call, which is fine.)

That is, we'd still have weekly tech hours except for the week of the community call.

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Jul 16 2026 at 18:04):

If we we go for 10am in Boston, here's a summary of how the time will bounce around from 3pm to 4pm in Germany and Belgium (sorry!):

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view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Jul 20 2026 at 14:26):

@Vera Clemens @Oliver Bertuch @Eryk Kulikowski please look for a new Google Calendar invite for tomorrow at 10am Boston time! This time for you:

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Jul 21 2026 at 15:47):

Minimal grumbling about the earlier time. :smile:

view this post on Zulip Eryk Kulikowski (Aug 06 2026 at 14:15):

Looks great! Thanks!


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