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You might have noticed that the time slots I schedule our monthly OctoPrint On Air live broadcast at varies: One month it's late afternoon UTC/mid day western hemisphere/late night eastern hemisphere. One month I let you vote on the best time slot (so far that only has come out at the same later afternoon UTC). And finally one month I schedule for early morning UTC/late night western hemisphere/afternoon eastern hemisphere. 

The plan behind that was that it would give each of you a chance to attend at least once per quarter, regardless of where in the world you are located.

As mentioned in the last episode, I want to talk about whether that actually does make sense. Attendance of the early morning UTC ones never has been good, usually less than a handful, and the last time I was basically looking at a pretty much dead chat and it felt a lot like I was talking to an empty audience. The viewer count across all past live broadcasts also confirms that. 

The thing is, I was never a morning person, and I think that really shows on the early morning slot videos as well. I struggle with explaining things properly in that case, I constantly stumble over my tongue, stuff like that. I'm simply not at my top game then, and that makes me feel uncomfortable and  like I'm letting you down.

That combined with the low attendance has me thinking of letting that early morning UTC slot drop off the rotation and instead concentrate on time slots that I'm fully functional at. 

The question is what you think about that. I don't know if there is anyone among you who can only attend during the early morning UTC slot at all and would now be devastated if that fell away, or if all of you who attended that slot were located in the western hemisphere anyhow and are now breathing a huge sigh of relief. So please let's talk about whether that slot actually does make sense or not in the comments :)

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Jonathan Charnas

I like sleeping in on weekends usually, to make up for the lack of sleep I accumulate during the week, and I'm in UTC+1... So I prefer the afternoon slots.

Mike Woods

Afternoon/evening for me, for similar reasons, with the way work is trying to kill me i'm often not awake for the early slot anyway :D. The biggest problem i've had making the last few have been down to festivals :)

Paul Arden

Given I am in Melbourne, Australia, I am used to always either missing out on live youtube events or having to watch at very odd hours. I really value the ability to pre-submit some questions (though it would be great to also be able to notify if in the meantime they were answered already) and then seeing the stream live isn't so critical, even though it would still be good to be able to put some questions in on the fly. I'd definitely watch live if it was in the 7am - 1am range somewhere here (but that's 10pm to 4pm in Germany I believe with the recent DST switch, changing again when Australia switches). Guessing Octoprint users are pretty spread out :-)

foosel

Good to know :) About the questions, I add a link to the recording containing the answers to the spreadsheet: <a href="https://goo.gl/ONff4Y" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/ONff4Y</a> (if I remember after a recording release, your comment just made me remember and update for the questions answered in OOA#9). Speaking of which, the spreadsheet only has one unanswered question left, I guess I'll have to make a call to action about that soon as well or the next broadcast will only consist of me twiddling my thumbs during the Q&A section ;)

Dave Witten

I am in the middle of North America (UTC -6), but I often do not have the option to watch the live sessions even if they were scheduled just for me. I appreciate that you value live interaction, and if I really have some burning question I will catch the session whenever it is scheduled. But short of a crisis situation, I will pre-submit my comments and watch the recorded version when I can.

Baha Baydar

I don't think I've made it to any of the live broadcasts, and only watched a few of the recorded ones. I would think that doing what works best for you is the way to go. If anyone really needs an answer, they can submit the question beforehand.