Hi JB, Great point!
In pitching this event, it was never my intention to bypass any official project workflows. I'll be sure to add a note to this effect on future Polaris sprints to ensure that any official discussions go back to the mailing list. Danica On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > It's a great opportunity to meet and greet. Thanks Danica ! Awesome idea ! > > Just a comment: if it's a great way to discuss and exchange, no > decision should be made in this kind of get together. It's important > that all roadmap and open issues discussions happen on the dev mailing > list and publicly, in order to grow/engage the community. So using > this opportunity to align on the proposals is a fantastic idea, but, > at the end of the day, it has to be go on the dev mailing list. > > Thanks again ! > > Regards > JB > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM Danica Fine > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Ahead of graduation (fingers crossed!), it would be great if we could > grow > > the Polaris community, encourage more contributions, and bring folks > > together to ideate and collaborate in person. I was specifically inspired > > by what I've seen over the years in the Jupyter Community > > < > https://jupytercon2025.sched.com/event/28H6G/community-sprints-pre-registration-required?iframe=no > > > > where they regularly schedule time for 10-20+ folks to gather together > for > > a day to roadmap and work on open issues. It's also a great way to > > encourage PRs from net-new contributors. > > > > Is this something that the community would be interested in? > > > > If so, I can work with the PPMC to get official approval to put something > > on the calendar in the coming months! > > > > Best, > > Danica >
