In marketing world, we have two time slots we typically use: US 8AM Pacific which provides an end of day time slot for EMEA as well, and 8PM Pacific which hits China at 11AM, and India at 830 AM.
I recommend starting with these on an alternating basis. Alternatively, the PMC could hold a primary meeting at one timeslot, and then a shorter recap & comment meeting at the other time slot, alternating the primary and recap meetings. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, William Markito <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a great idea Justin!! +1 > > Once we start having spec reviews, let's rotate... > > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Josh Fischer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > > William Markito Oliveira > > -- For questions about Apache Geode, please write to > *[email protected] > <[email protected]>* > -- Greg Chase Director of Product Marketing | Big Data http://www.pivotal.io/big-data Pivotal Software http://www.pivotal.io/ 650-215-0477 @GregChase Blog: http://geekmarketing.biz/
