Hi all, Let's try to find a preferred time for a monthly SDAP meeting starting in January. We can make this meeting occur regularly on the 3rd Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday of each month depending on our preferences.
Here is a link to a doodle poll for the week of January 16th: https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/er817LKb Thanks, Nga On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:08 PM Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > A monthly meeting sounds like a good idea. It will allow project > members to get to know each other, and should help build momentum. > > Monthly meetings of this kind are fairly common in Apache projects. > However, the projects need to be careful that the meeting doesn't > exclude people from the decision-making process, such as people who > are in a different time zone, or who have other responsibilities at > the time of the meeting. A few suggestions for mitigating this: > * Have discussions during the meeting, but if there are significant > decisions to be made, make them on the dev list. > * Send out minutes after each meeting. > * Poll the community for preferred times and if there is no single > time that works for everyone consider varying the time of the meeting. > > For example, if you read through the minutes of the Arrow sync call > [1] there are several good habits in evidence: they speak of 'coming > to a consensus' but decisions are 'pending a vote'; there is a > proposal, but one of the action items is for someone to start a > discussion of that proposal on the mailing list. > > Julian > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/cmt59phs7tzd5dcdqnr7qn66womd1odx > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 4:34 PM Nga Chung <nch...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm not sure if there is any official guidance on hosting public monthly > > project meetings. This could be a good venue for PMC > > members/committers/users/etc. to discuss project roadmap, releases, > usage, > > etc. Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Nga >
