Hi Jan, That's a fantastic idea. Thank you for reviving the meet-ups. I hope we can establish a monthly cadence. Quick question: what TZ are the times in the poll listed in?
Thanks, Deni On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 12:24 PM Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > In the past we’ve done two in-person developer summits with great success, > both from a team-building but also from a technical discussion point of > view. But these were ~1/2 a decade a part and took quite a bit to organise. > > Given that meeting in-person continues to to be a pain and given that we > all learned how to do video calls in the past few years, I’d like to > propose a recurring synchronous meeting where we can discuss CouchDB’s > development in a different format than we do at the moment. > > There are a number of high-level features that we’d need larger input on > but that are have enough moving parts that it would make sense to discuss > face to face (via video/audio chat). > > In detail: > > - we run a monthly video/audio meeting of ~90 minute length where we can > hash out CouchDB development topics > > - in the beginning, I’d like to dedicate each meeting to a single topic, > just so we don’t get distracted too much (I have a short-list of proposals > for topics, but that’s for a later day, I’m sure we all do :), maybe a > topic needs multiple meetings, maybe we have time for two topics per > meeting, but let’s be clear and limited on the agenda, so everybody can > prepare with minimal effort > > - each topic discussed will have a reasonably complete written proposal > that folks can read through in preparation > > - if any one can’t make any particular meeting, no problem, there is no > mandatory attendance, and we are not making any project binding decisions > in those meetings > > - ideally, we keep decent notes so that folks can catch up, and maybe we > can do a recording of it all for posterity > > My suggestion would be that pick a date and time in the somewhat near > future and then stick to that date and time on a monthly basis. > > Since it is (northern hemisphere) summer, it is possible that you, dear > reader, won’t be able to attend the inaugural edition, just select > something that works from the next iteration onwards. > > I put up a date and time selection poll, it is aiming for late-EU and > early US-West compatibility since I expect that’s where most of the folks > are going to be: https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/fUQFofPoezvvz9ev > > I’m looking forward to seeing you all :) > > Best > Jan > —
