+1 Happy to help out here. On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is a great idea. Face-to-face communication can be much more > productive than communication over chat or email, fosters trust and builds > knowledge. > > I don’t see a problem with these office hours being run by the Druid PMC. > If that makes them ‘affiliated with Apache’, that’s OK; I am not worried > that this will run afoul of ASF event’s policy. > > Just adhere to the usual ASF niceties — announce the hours over email (as > you have done), and if discussions need a decision to be made, bring them > back to async channels (email discussions, PRs or issues) so that everyone > can participate. > > Give careful consideration to the time of day. Whatever time you choose > will be 2am for someone, and those people will justifiably feel excluded. > Maybe have two tracks, say “Atlantic office hours” that are convenient for > folks between Berlin and San Francisco, and “Pacific office hours” > displaced 8 - 12 hours from that. > > Julian > > > > On Jun 16, 2026, at 7:15 PM, Abhishek Radhakrishnan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Druids, > > > > I’d like to propose starting informal Druid community office hours: a > > 1-hour session once a month where users, members and contributors can > > connect, discuss and get help with PRs/reviews/issues attended to. Other > > projects/communities do something similar and I believe the Druid > community > > had tried this in the past as well. > > > > This would be a completely voluntary community effort, not affiliated > with > > Apache or any employer and adhere to the policy > > <https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/events>. > > > > I think this could help bring the community together. If there’s > sufficient > > interest, we could try it monthly to start and adjust from there. > > > > If there are no objections, I’m happy to kick this off sometime early > next > > month. For now, I’m thinking we can announce it on this dev thread and > the > > Apache Druid Slack channel, and find volunteers as we go. > > > > Please let me know if you have any suggestions or concerns. Also, if > you’d > > like to volunteer to run the office hours with me or independently, > please > > reply to this thread as well. > > > > Thanks, > > Abhishek > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
