Planning for Voynich Manuscript Day 2024

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Europe and US should be on daylight saving time (but not Thailand and Australia), so one should adjust some of the times for that. However, seven hours for six planned talks leaves quite some margin.

Timeanddate takes DST into consideration and adjusts the UTC conversions accordingly. I will be private messaging each of the presenters individually tomorrow and will be copying Koen for the webinar setups. Rene and Andrew have been helping me with the submissions and I can copy them as well, in case that would be helpful. The Zoom webinars will be in Koen's time zone (CEST - Central European Summer Time) but I'll be sure to note in the PMs and the VM Day materials and communications the equivalents in other time zones, especially Central US (so far the earliest known time zone) and Thailand and Australia (the latest known time zones), for each of the CEST times scheduled. Let's prioritize Keagan's presentation first since he is in Australia (we'll work with Michelle on that). And I would like to prioritize Koen's second so he can pick the best time for his since he is also host for all of the webinars. It's been my experience webinars frequently run over their allotted times, especially when there is a Q&A at the end, so I will recommend scheduling starts on the hour so as to allow a 15 to 30 minute gap between and we can use those gaps for additional programming. Most likely there will still be some margin.

I have been known to tightly pack webinar schedules before though...fair warning. 

(I haven't quite figured out how to be in two places at the same time...yet. No...wait...there were these two simultaneous webinars once that I did attend with simultaneous audio and video. And there was once this on-site training conference with full day programming in two rooms more or less across from each other and I kept bouncing between them both, though of course not simultaneous attendance. Both were really strange experiences though...very disjointed. I don't recommend, not if you like your sanity and want to get something out of it. LOL)

I understand that some of that margin would be used for other activities.
If my music thing goes ahead (looking good), I could spend some 15 minutes or so to explain how it was done.

That would be most welcome, Rene. We've had some lively discourses on the site before about VM music and I'm sure there will be a good bit of interest.