This is a great idea Jason! As per Jan's suggestion, I think it would be great for the host to pick a time in their time zone, so that no one feels pressured. There's enough community members around the globe to not stick to the US timezones religiously.
- Houston On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 6:12 AM Eric Pugh <ep...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > +1 Let’s do it. > > > On Jan 24, 2023, at 11:24 AM, David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > We already have a precedent of using Confluence for meeting notes. > Here's > > the last one: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/2022-05-10+Meeting+notes > > > > An email that occurs per meeting would be good to remind folks that > there's > > about to be another meeting within a day or two, say. It should include > a > > link to this Confluence doc. I don't think a post-meeting email is > > necessary, unlike the previous meetings I've done. Ideally the host > > updates the doc to mention some topics discussed and some attendees but I > > could understand if the new low-formality approach means this may not > > happen. > > > > ~ David Smiley > > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:13 AM Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Awesome - sounds there's definitely some general interest. (Though the > >> details need some hashing out.) > >> > >>> I'm wondering if bi-weekly is a bit ambitious? > >> > >> It might be. Maybe monthly is a better starting point. My hope was > >> that making the meetings reasonably frequent would cut down on the > >> pressure folks might feel to show up to any particular meeting. But > >> maybe bi-weekly is ambitious to start. Let's say "monthly" then. > >> > >>> Who will host them all? > >> > >> I'm happy to volunteer, since I brought it up. In my mind that'd > >> mostly involve (1) setting up a Zoom or Google Hangouts meeting, (2) > >> sending a reminder email here a few days in advance with a video > >> conferencing link, and then (3) opening up the meeting when the time > >> comes. > >> > >>> Do you have experience with "no-agenda" meetings elsewhere? > >> > >> I guess? I've worked at a few places now where the search team holds > >> some form of "office hours" where folks might come with some PR > >> needing review or some question to discuss, or they might show up > >> "empty handed" just to hang out and learn from the discussions that > >> others are having. And, even less formally, I'd point to the sort of > >> informal hallway conversations that we all have when we have with our > >> coworkers at work, or others in the community at conferences. Those > >> were the two models that I guess I had in mind. > >> > >> That said - I appreciate how not having an agenda to advertise in > >> advance makes it harder for folks deciding how to use their time. If > >> folks prefer having a loose list of topics, let's do that. If the > >> host sends out a reminder email a few days in advance, people planning > >> to attend could advertise their suggested topic on that thread? Or a > >> Google sheet or Confluence or anything else would work too. No real > >> opinion on that. > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> Jason > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 6:01 AM Noble Paul <noble.p...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Even if we can get together once a month, that should be great. > >>> > >>> Let's keep a google sheets to fill up items that we need to discuss . > We > >>> can just pick up the top items to discuss? > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:17 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Kudos for the initiative. Light-weight is always good, and high > >> frequency > >>>> makes it more light weight.. > >>>> > >>>> I'm wondering if bi-weekly is a bit ambitious? Who will host them all? > >>>> While no agenda is low-maintenance, it also makes it hard for > community > >>>> members to choose which meetings they want to attend if they need to > >> pick > >>>> just a few? Do you have experience with "no-agenda" meetings > elsewhere? > >>>> > >>>> Being a large distributed community, it would also be nice to spread > >> the > >>>> meetings across differnet week-days and time zones. One natural way to > >> do > >>>> that would be to assign a host for each meeting ahead of time, and let > >> the > >>>> host choose a suitable time in his/her own TZ without feeling they > >> need to > >>>> stay up at night to be "inclusive". Or is the number of U.S. community > >>>> members simply so large that every meeting should at least be within > >> the > >>>> daytime hours of both west- and east coast? > >>>> > >>>> Jan > >>>> > >>>>> 23. jan. 2023 kl. 20:29 skrev Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com > >>> : > >>>>> > >>>>> What would everyone here think about having some sort of semi-regular > >>>>> virtual "meetup" for committers/community-members? > >>>>> > >>>>> We've done something similar to this with the "committers meetings" > >>>>> that've been held in the past. Those work great, but I know David > >> has > >>>>> said they're a lot of work to put together. I've been wondering > >>>>> whether a more impromptu, less-organized format might support > >>>>> interested folks meeting up more often. > >>>>> > >>>>> Here's a strawman suggestion to build from: let's set up a standing > >>>>> time when folks could hop on a Google Hangout (Zoom?) every two > >> weeks. > >>>>> There'd be no agenda in-advance - folks could come with a question or > >>>>> a topic in mind, or just to chat with folks they haven't seen in > >>>>> awhile or to hear what others are working on. If the group is large > >>>>> enough we could do breakout rooms (or something similar). > >>>>> > >>>>> If there's interest I'd be willing to set up a trial-run with a few > >>>>> folks later this week, say, Thursday at 3 (ET). Or, alternately, we > >>>>> could refine the idea for a bit and do a trial run in a few weeks. > >>>>> Curious what folks think! > >>>>> > >>>>> Best, > >>>>> > >>>>> Jason > >>>>> > >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org > >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> ----------------------------------------------------- > >>> Noble Paul > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org > >> > >> > > _______________________ > Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | > http://www.opensourceconnections.com < > http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> | My Free/Busy < > http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> > Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed < > https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> > > This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be > Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of > whether attachments are marked as such. > >
