Further virtual meetings? (Re: results of "virtual round table" at adaptto)

[Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>]

Hi,

Oli raised a good point - we used to have nice hacking sessions after
adaptTo and more in-depth discussions. I think it's a good discussion
to check if we think having further virtual meetings.

TBH I quickly debated with myself whether it makes sense to have a
full-day of half-day virtual hackathon and decided that it's hard to
get the same level of focus as we do when sitting at the same table.

That being said, let's see what the general feeling is. I think we can
do one or both of:

- periodic short online meetings like we had a couple of months ago,
e.g. every 3 months instead of every 12
- get together for half-day or full-day virtual hackathons 

Just to be clear, these are 'discussion' and 'decision' meetings, and
there is no requirement to be a committer/PMC to participate, everyone
is welcome.

What do others think about these possibilities?

Thanks,
Robert

On Sat, 2020-10-03 at 16:18 +0200, Oliver Lietz wrote:
> On Friday, October 2, 2020 9:36:38 AM CEST Stefan Seifert wrote:
> > this monday we had our traditional "round table" at this year's
> > adaptTo()
> > with sling committers and guests from the community - same as the
> > adaptTo()
> > itself it was purely virtual. i personally was quite tired from
> > organizing
> > the conference itself and could not contribute much, but it was
> > nice esp.
> > to see some new faces from our community.
> > 
> > collecting the notes of the shared document and from my side i will
> > post
> > them to the mailing list here to have them archive and probably
> > starting
> > further discussions. as usual, they are not "decisions" but
> > describe what
> > was discussed. i will suffix them with [roundtable].
> 
> Thanks Stefan for putting all the effort into this again!
> 
> We didn't meet for our hackathon this year to further discuss topics
> - maybe 
> we can do also a virtual one.
> 
> O.
> 
> > stefan
> 
> 
> 

Re: Further virtual meetings? (Re: results of "virtual round table" at adaptto)

[Cris Rockwell <cm...@umich.edu>]

Even though I missed AdaptTo, a virtual round table series would be really interesting to me. Hack-a-thon’s are okay too, but I like discussion formats that provide high-level explanations, or details about strategy, intent and purpose. Just another way to inform about what’s happening in the project would be great imo. 

Cris Rockwell


> On Oct 12, 2020, at 11:20 AM, Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Oli raised a good point - we used to have nice hacking sessions after
> adaptTo and more in-depth discussions. I think it's a good discussion
> to check if we think having further virtual meetings.
> 
> TBH I quickly debated with myself whether it makes sense to have a
> full-day of half-day virtual hackathon and decided that it's hard to
> get the same level of focus as we do when sitting at the same table.
> 
> That being said, let's see what the general feeling is. I think we can
> do one or both of:
> 
> - periodic short online meetings like we had a couple of months ago,
> e.g. every 3 months instead of every 12
> - get together for half-day or full-day virtual hackathons 
> 
> Just to be clear, these are 'discussion' and 'decision' meetings, and
> there is no requirement to be a committer/PMC to participate, everyone
> is welcome.
> 
> What do others think about these possibilities?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> On Sat, 2020-10-03 at 16:18 +0200, Oliver Lietz wrote:
>> On Friday, October 2, 2020 9:36:38 AM CEST Stefan Seifert wrote:
>>> this monday we had our traditional "round table" at this year's
>>> adaptTo()
>>> with sling committers and guests from the community - same as the
>>> adaptTo()
>>> itself it was purely virtual. i personally was quite tired from
>>> organizing
>>> the conference itself and could not contribute much, but it was
>>> nice esp.
>>> to see some new faces from our community.
>>> 
>>> collecting the notes of the shared document and from my side i will
>>> post
>>> them to the mailing list here to have them archive and probably
>>> starting
>>> further discussions. as usual, they are not "decisions" but
>>> describe what
>>> was discussed. i will suffix them with [roundtable].
>> 
>> Thanks Stefan for putting all the effort into this again!
>> 
>> We didn't meet for our hackathon this year to further discuss topics
>> - maybe 
>> we can do also a virtual one.
>> 
>> O.
>> 
>>> stefan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>