Location centric meetings

[EzraKuhr]

Results can be a bit limited at times. It may be helpful to add the location centric VMs from tomato.

[dgershman]

There are challenges with this as location-centric VM meetings do not have a timezone set.

[EzraKuhr]

Does the root server have time zone support built-in?

[jbraswell]

Does the root server have time zone support built-in?

Short answer: no

Longer answer: sort of... halfway

I added a hidden time_zone field to the root server a while back just for Virtual NA. There is also a secret setting that will enable it in the UI. The plan was (and still is) to expose it to everyone someday.

The challenge is... how do we automatically add time zone data to every meeting when someone upgrades? Folks won't (and shouldn't have to) manually add time zone data to thousands of meetings.

I came up with a couple of ideas a year or so ago now, and we may have more options available now that geocod.io is available with a reasonable free tier.

Maybe it's time to pick this back up in the root server.