#+title: Virtual event organisers, please think of people in the APAC region

#+date: <2022-01-11>

It is impossible to hold an online event that works for people from
America, Europe and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions at the same time.
Normally one region will be dropped in favour of the other two.  Most
online tech events are organised by people located in Europe or
America.  98% of them are set at a time that accommodates people in
both regions, thus not work for people in APAC.  Perhaps this is
because not as many from the APAC region attend in an APAC-friendly
time, compared to the number of participants from Europe in an
Europe-friendly time (say) when the event is organised by someone in
the States, which could be an effect as well, of events not
accommodating APAC time.

As such, if organisers in Europe or America sometimes set events time
to be APAC-friendly say 40% of the time, instead of accommodating
those across the pond, a more diverse and vibrant community may
result.  More concretely, that roughly translates to 12am-12pm UTC for
Europe-based organisers, 7pm-7am UTC-5 for US East Coast, and 3pm-3am
for US West Coast.

Thank you!