I can ask questions of multiple people simultaneously via a mailing list. In fact I am asking that question of everyone who cares not a subset who can spare a specific timeslot, potentially when they should be asleep.
There is a reason ASF projects don't encourage synchronous meetings. It's OK to have them, but be aware that they are exclusionary and typically bad practice. If the team go ahead then remember no decisions can be made in these meetings, only proposals can be drawn up to be brought to this list. Ross Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Zack Shoylev [mailto:zack.shoy...@rackspace.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 11:22 AM To: dev@jclouds.apache.org Subject: RE: Bi-monthly Meetings? The value I see in something like this is being able to ask questions of multiple people simultaneously and coordinate/expedite decisions. For example: - releases: what, when, how - specific decisions (such as the recent wiki change) - priorities (ie are more people interested in blobstore test fixes rather than the compute test fixes) How do we decide as a community if something like irc meetings would be useful? Maybe we should have an IRC meeting about it :) I know some big communities do it, but I would really like to hear some more feedback from people before we try it! (Also thanks Andrew for offering to help) -Zack ________________________________________ From: Andrew Phillips [aphill...@qrmedia.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 2:09 PM To: dev@jclouds.apache.org Subject: Re: Bi-monthly Meetings? > @demobox, is this something you could run with as the project lead? > Can we figure out how to make this happen starting in February? If we decide to do this, I'm happy to figure out how to make this happen, and to find out what kind of "housekeeping" in terms of taking notes etc. would be needed. Before we consider this, though: could you give some more details on how you think this might help? Specifically, what this would help achieve that we're not handling well now. I'm mainly asking because, with the timezone differences across the community as they are, I don't expect this to be particularly easy to arrange. Regards ap
