Comment on Tech Workers Coalition 101 - Onboarding & Overview event Feb 10th

vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Their website lists several international chapters

  techworkerscoalition.org

  That said, their website could use a lot of work to better describe who they are, what they do, and what their goals are.

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• chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Session A time zone is good for Europeans too. Session B I guess could work for East Asia.

  Why do you see this as USA-only?

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why do you see this as USA only?

    Because the announcement doesn’t use UTC to announce the event and there’s absolutely no chance that anyone outside the US knows when some random timezone is, or if daylight savings is active in that timezone or not at the time of the event.

    The announcement also tells me that the organisation is run out of the USA, not a place universally known for its inclusivity or global consideration. Reinforced by a text only imagine with no alt text.

    I think a tech workers coalition is an interesting and potentially useful idea, but the announcement doesn’t even contain a URL to the organisation.

    Which leads to my conclusion, a USA only affair.

    I’d be delighted to be wrong, but that’s what the announcement conveyed to me.

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    • chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m part of TWC and the organization of this call and I’m Italian. There are different timezones but it’s obviously hard to include all of them. Including UTC wouldn’t help most people.

      The very fact that there are two events for two distinct timezones doesn’t suggest there’s an attempt to reach out to a bigger crowd?

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