Friday evenings are bad for me, but given that I won't be able to participate that much in the near future, don't worry about me if that time is good for others.

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When I suggested Friday evenings I was referring to Pacific time, but as Fwiffo said, do as you wish. 7pm EEDT is 9am Pacific, and I will usually be unavailable at this time. As I mentioned earlier, if we can't find a time that works for everyone perhaps we could get two groups for different timezones.

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I'm so erratic in my availability, it's best if I just check to see who's online when I am.

I think the first step for everyone should be to make a study plan, like what to read, how much to play, Tsumego amount et cetera.
It all sounds fun, meeting and discussion and so on, but I think to make this goal real (or sort of =D), more determination is needed and by doing a plan, one shows such determination.

Just my view of course ; ) What say you?

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I'm stubbornly refusing to join the group until I've achieved my first goal (solid 5k), but I think the best thing the group could do is just play each other when possible, and do group reviews of the games played between its members. It seems that even if no one stronger is free to review, a group of similarly-ranked players can accomplish a lot by playing and looking at things together.

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I tend to agree with SoDesuNe ... however, that would require actual time being available to me. Man, my schedule gets packed quickly.

Concerning a study plan, I can share what we are doing in my Go school in Paris. Morning we are doing 30 tsumegos in 30 min, 30min of pro game study (2 games choose by the teacher) and one hour lesson on a specific subject (semeai, joseki, fuseki...)
afternoon it's a tournament (45'+5'/20stones) and review of most of the game after this.
It's a one day program so maybe it can be rearrange to fit our possibilities !

Hey everybody, I am tentatively setting 6pm PDT Friday 6th of June as our first meeting, in the godiscussions.com room on KGS

Please come if you can, and bring about 5 of your favorite tsumego to share !

We`ll see how many people make it.

Sorry for the shortish notice.


PS: PDT is UTC-7.EDT is UTC-4. If you live in NZ like me, your time is UTC+12.

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Since this is 2am for me, I probably won't be able to participate (and don't try to change the time for my account, I fully realize that accommodating everyone is not possible, and since most people are from other timezones I'm fine with it)

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Perhaps saturday morning in some american time would be better? Oh well, we'll see how it goes. If there are enough people in opposing time zones, we could perhaps have two different meeting times.

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Would be 10am in my time, but that's okay. But this Sunday (6th of June), I'm going to play my third game with karklis at this time, so I can't join you.

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Is it Friday the 4th? Or Sunday the 6th?

He is probably talking about 2014

After checking timezones for Europe, US and New Zealand the only interval where people from all these countries should be available is about UTC Sat 20:00-23:00.

* I consider times from 8AM to 1AM acceptable during the weekend.
* People from Asia or Australia probably won't be able to join.
* I'd suggest starting at UTC Sat 20:30



http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/m ... 179&p5=264

edit: Corrected US-Times

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Correction for US times:

KGS+ is having a tournament this Saturday at this time.

Round 6(the last one) of that tournament seems to be from 20:30-21:30
http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=510

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There should be two different meetings anyway. If you miss one, go to the other. Just getting as much study in as possible will be good. If people are busy, they can go the next week.


I think just as long as we get it going, we will be fine. We'll never get started trying to please everyone on a time/day of week. So two meetings should help that.


Just an idea, though.

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d'oh, my inability to use clocks is fearsome.

I was thinking of Friday 4th.

LiKao's new time suggestion of Saturday 8:30pm UTC looks great to me, I'll be on KGS at then as well - we can have a second meeting as per a couple peoples' thoughts.

Anyway I'll see any confused time travellers from 2014 in about two hours if they make it

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Looks like Loons used some kind of cloaking device on Saturday evening.

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I must have missed it, but if I got your post timing right then the time you mentioned (Friday at 6:30pm Pacific) and the times Li Kao mentioned (Saturday 1pm-4pm Pacific) would be great for me. Of course, as others have mentioned, I think individual study plans are the most important, but meeting up once in a while can't hurt either. Oh well, I'll see you when I see you...

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