I think spec reviews in Google a hangout is a great idea. Can google hangouts be taped a viewed later on for individuals who could not make the time slot or is it only available as it is broadcasted? If not, the rotational time slot works for me.
+1 -Josh Please excuse my brevity, this is sent from my phone. On May 28, 2015 5:57 AM, "Justin Erenkrantz" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:44 PM, William Markito <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Folks, > > > > What do you think about doing some spec reviews through Google > hangout ? > > > > There are some JIRAs open that will have some specs attached but it > > would also be nice if we had some discussions/presentations about the > > proposed specs. > > > > The idea would be to announce the hangouts here on the dev list and > > share the notes after the meeting on the list as well. That's not saying > > that discussions won't happen on the list, but just that some specs could > > be better discussed in a video conference. > > Part of the Incubation process is to encourage diverse participation, > so synchronous communication mechanisms should be embraced only with > extreme care. If the only people who end up attending are those who > are employed by Pivotal, then, well, that's just an echo chamber. > > With synchronous communication methods, one particular sensitive point > is what timeslots work for folks - for example, I catch up on the > Geode lists outside of normal working hours. Cloud Foundry After Dark > only happens at 8pm Pacific, which makes it near impossible for > Europeans or, even, East Coasters to participate. I don't know what > the geographic dispersion is of folks are currently, but I do believe > that there are Gemfire communities in Europe and Asia. > > In a global footprint, an option that I've seen is that the some > communities try to do a rotation of their weekly - it will rotate > through 3 time slots - basically, Europe morning, US morning, and Asia > morning. (They actually do something like US/EU/US/Asia to make it > slightly more predictable.) And, it's understood that not everyone > will make every weekly. > > Also, Etherpad is a pretty good way to draft the minutes > collaboratively - the Ceph community has a pretty good process there: > > http://pad.ceph.com/p/performance_weekly > > HTH. -- justin >
