World: r3wp

Thanks Reichart :)  Unless I hear differently, I'll reserve enough 
bandwitdh for 50 attendees to attend a 4 hour event, and enough storage 
space to record the whole thing.  That should give us plenty of wiggle 
room.

Agreed!

Everything is now set up and ready to go.

Rock'n

I've set up a wiki at http://rebolconf.info-- I'll leave it open 
for editing until the morning, after which only approved users may 
contribute.  The design is not as intricate as I'd prefer -- it is 
what it is for now.  Contributions use a slimmed-down make-doc format. 
 Let me know of any problems...

Please use your AltMe name to register.

Can somebody post here before the conf. starts because I am not 100% 
sure I got the EST time conversion to my timezone right. To my understanding 
it will start 10:30 hours from now.

Start time is  20:00 UTC.

all those damned UTC, EST ... isn't there any simple measure for 
one's local time?

swatch internet time?

there should be time counter capability in calendar here, or something 
like that. Stating 20:00 UTC is like saying nothing ...

ah, finally something - http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx

http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm- UTC = GMT .... there is a clock, 
which will show current time counter in relation to your timezone 
...

Anyone have all the connection details for todays conference?

<Stating 20:00 UTC is like saying nothing ...>

Part of the idea behind ISO 8601 is that everyone should be able 
to convert their local time to UTC and vice versa. So times specified 
as UTC are unambiguous. Anything else, in an international context, 
is mis-interpretable.
See you at DevCon!

It's currently about 10:45am here in Eastern time, USA, and I'm planning 
of being at http://rockfactory.us/rooms/room22at 3pm (4 hours 15 
minutes from now) - the Altme timestamp should help clear things 
up.

yes, 21 hour here - GMT + 1 (UTC0100)

ok, thanks.. yes we are GMT + 1 too.. where are you from Pekr?

Czech Republic, timezone Prague ...

-6 here

And you, Janko?

A little lower on the map.. Slovenia.  Do we all (viewers) login 
with devcon u/p when the conf will start?

i believe so.

I am not sure I will be able to make it. Some family duties aproaching. 
I wonder if there will be video-recorded session of this first virtual 
devcon? The beauty is, that we can have such devcons 4times a year, 
if we wish so ....

However - the next real devcon is going to be in Prague, hopefully 
September 2009

Weather may impact my availability but I intend to attend.  We are 
expecting Tornado's this afternoon in the midwest.

Going to go from 70's to the 30's in a matter of an hour or so.from 
what I understand.

huh.. what do you mean 70's and 30's ?

(huh is for tornados)

sounds like drastic temperature change?

Early 20s to near freezing.

Yes Henrik we get those alot here in Saint Louis.

Weather fronts cross each other here frequently.  We get the most 
devestating whether it seems whenever we see a front drop straight 
down from Chicago.  Those are very rare but it seems when they happen 
they leave destruction.

I think Gregg is in Missouri so he might already be getting some 
of the bad weather.

Paul, is that near the tornado belt (or what you call it)?

Tornado alley...

Yes we get them often.

Was in one about 4 years ago that ripped the roof off the house across 
the street from us.

another interesting live event http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Streaming

We had one years ago 25+ that put a foxphoto store in the middle 
of the street and didn't even spill the rolls of film from the shelves.

This was about a mile from my home:
http://wongablog.co.uk/2005/07/29/birmingham-tornado/

all those damned UTC, EST ... isn't there any simple measure for 
one's local time?

Not to rag on you, but UTC "is" the simple measure...

This DevCon is going to be a DRY RUN (meaning, "let's learn").

yes, simple measure = at least 2 or 3 ppl here confused here, WHEN 
actually does the even start :-)

We're in -6, so for us it starts at 2pm.

2h from now.

Sorry, "we" is stretching it.

(not much suprises me.............but it is interesting how some 
programmers get very confused by time offsets.  I wonder if this 
is the same reason American's get confused by metric)

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/


At the bottom of the page it says "Current UTC (or GMT/Zulu)-time 
used: Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 18:12:34" (right now)

Oy, need to get a move on...