Hello Adrian, Please don't hesitate to ask questions on the list when you are unsure. Thank you for volunteering, I'm sure there will be other opportunities if you wish to facilitate in the future.
The duties of the facilitator for the Parquet sync are as follows: - greet the attendees :) - we start the meeting by building the agenda together: the facilitator calls the attendees 1 by 1 to do a brief intro: their name, who they work for if they wish or is relevant, what they want to discuss or hear about. It is perfectly fine to be just a fly on the wall and listen. If there are a lot of people, it is important to go fast, - once we compiled together the topics to form the agenda, we then prioritized and go over them one by one. Usually, smaller topics go first. The facilitator makes sure to manage the time so that we save some time for all topics. - we use a shared google doc to collaboratively take note. The facilitator takes the lead but feel free to assign a note taker if you wish. Other people are encouraged to edit the notes concurrently to add links to relevant PRs and issues and add any relevant information not captured. - make sure to keep track of action items. Usually people will take action items to follow up on the mailing list, open an issue, review a PR, etc. - send the notes to the mailing list. You can check out the archive for examples. The sync meeting is a way to accelerate the async nature of open source work. It comes in addition to the discussions on the mailing list or on github. You are always welcome to send questions or topics to discuss on the mailing list as well. The sync meeting is usually useful to facilitate getting to a conclusion faster. The next meeting is on Wednesday April 16th at 10am PT, we're looking forward to seeing you there. On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM Adrian Garcia Badaracco <adr...@pydantic.dev.invalid> wrote: > Bummer! Is it documented anywhere what the expectations are for being a > facilitator? I was thinking of volunteering but decided not to since I > haven't attended one of these meetings before and was not confident I'd be > able to satisfy the expectations. > > Personally I really wanted to ask about: > - https://lists.apache.org/thread/22dvcnm7v5d30slzc3hp8d9qq8syj1dq > - https://lists.apache.org/thread/d86mxdvc1zv8ng0gfkmvq3qg5h11y14k > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM Julien Le Dem <jul...@apache.org> wrote: > > > In the absence of a facilitator, I’m canceling this instance. Feel free > to > > send updates or questions by email. > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:30 Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend as it overlaps with the > Iceberg > > > meetup in Amsterdam <https://lu.ma/ewx2kuis>. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Fokko > > > > > > Op do 27 mrt 2025 om 18:59 schreef Julien Le Dem <jul...@apache.org>: > > > > > > > Hello Adrian, > > > > This is a bi-weekly meeting opened to everyone at 10am PT on > Wednesday. > > > > It is announced on this list and then notes are posted there as well. > > > > See last week's meeting: > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/kl3wlq3svnwxs1lqnvw85rrx5jk5bps4 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM Adrian Garcia Badaracco > > > > <adr...@pydantic.dev.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Julien, > > > > > Sorry to bother you, but could you share information on this sync / > > is > > > it > > > > > open to the community? A Google search turned up nothing ("parquet > > > sync" > > > > is > > > > > not a great search term). > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM Julien Le Dem <jul...@apache.org> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I'm on vacation next week and won't be able to facilitate the > > Parquet > > > > > sync. > > > > > > Do we have a volunteer to facilitate and post the notes on the > > > mailing > > > > > list > > > > > > afterwards? > > > > > > Best > > > > > > Julien > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
