[Gluster-devel] New style community meetings - No more status updates

[Kaushal M]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Amye Scavarda <amye at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Our weekly community meetings have become mainly one hour of status
>>> updates. This just drains the life out of the meeting, and doesn't
>>> encourage new attendees to speak up.
>>>
>>> Let's try and change this. For the next meeting lets try skipping
>>> updates all together and instead just dive into the 'Open floor' part
>>> of the meeting.
>>>
>>> Let's have the updates to the regular topics be provided by the
>>> regular owners before the meeting. This could either be through
>>> sending out emails to the mailing lists, or updates entered into the
>>> meeting etherpad[1]. As the host, I'll make sure to link to these
>>> updates when the meeting begins, and in the meeting minutes. People
>>> can view these updates later in their own time. People who need to
>>> provide updates on AIs, just update the etherpad[1]. It will be
>>> visible from there.
>>>
>>> Now let's move why I addressed this mail to this large and specific
>>> set of people. The people who have been directly addressed are the
>>> owners of the regular topics. You all are expected, before the next
>>> meeting, to either,
>>>  - Send out an update on the status for the topic you are responsible
>>> for to the mailing lists, and then link to it on the the etherpad
>>>  - or, provide you updates directly in the etherpad.
>>> Please make sure you do this without fail.
>>> If you do have anything to discuss, add it to the "Open floor" section.
>>> Also, if I've missed out anyone in the addressed list, please make
>>> sure they get this message too.
>>>
>>> Anyone else who wants to share their updates, add it to the 'Other
>>> updates' section.
>>>
>>> Everyone else, go ahead and add anything you want to ask to the "Open
>>> floor" section. Ensure to have your name with the topic you add
>>> (etherpad colours are not reliable), and attend the meeting next week.
>>> When your topic comes up, you'll have the floor.
>>>
>>> I hope that this new format helps make our meetings more colourful and
>>> lively.
>>>
>>> As always, our community meetings will be held every Wednesday at
>>> 1200UTC in #gluster-meeting on Freenode.
>>> See you all there.
>>>
>>> ~kaushal
>>>
>>> [1]: https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-community-meetings
>>
>>
>> I really like this idea and am all in favor of color + liveliness.
>> Let's give this new format three weeks or so, and we'll review around
>> November 9th to see if we like this experiment.
>> Fair?
>> -- amye
>
> Sounds good to me.
>

Okay. We have one more day to the meeting, but I've yet to see any
updates from all of you.
Please ensure that you do this before the meeting tomorrow.

>>
>> --
>> Amye Scavarda | amye at redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead