Hi All,
There are projects (like k8s[1]) which do regular meetings using
video conferencing tools. We want to propose such a meeting for Apache
Cassandra once a quarter. Here are some of the initial details.
1. A two hour meeting once a quarter starting at 9am Pacific. We can later
move this to other times to make it easier for other timezones.
2. Agenda of the meeting will be due 2 days prior to the meeting. A sample
agenda for next one could cover updates on 4.0 testing, any major bugs
found and/or fixed, next steps for 4.0, etc.
3. Each agenda item will have a time duration and list of people to drive
that item.
4. We will have a moderator for each meeting which will rotate around the
community members.
5. We need to figure out which video conferencing tool to use for this.
Suggestions and donation of tools are welcome.
6. We will have meeting notes for each item discussed in the meeting.
Motivation for such a meeting
1. We currently have Slack, JIRA and emails however an agenda driven video
meeting can help facilitate alignment within the community.
2. This will give an opportunity to the community to summarize past
progress and talk about future tasks.
3. Agenda notes can serve as newsletters for the community.
Notes:
1. Does this violate any Apache rules? I could not find any rules but
someone can double check
2. Are there any other Apache projects which do something similar?
This is a proposal at this time and your feedback is greatly appreciated.
If anyone thinks this will not help then please provide a reason.
Thanks,
Sankalp
[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage
