On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Kaushal M <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Our weekly community meetings have become mainly one hour of status > updates. This just drains the life out of the meeting, and doesn't > encourage new attendees to speak up. > > Let's try and change this. For the next meeting lets try skipping > updates all together and instead just dive into the 'Open floor' part > of the meeting. > > Let's have the updates to the regular topics be provided by the > regular owners before the meeting. This could either be through > sending out emails to the mailing lists, or updates entered into the > meeting etherpad[1]. As the host, I'll make sure to link to these > updates when the meeting begins, and in the meeting minutes. People > can view these updates later in their own time. People who need to > provide updates on AIs, just update the etherpad[1]. It will be > visible from there. > > Now let's move why I addressed this mail to this large and specific > set of people. The people who have been directly addressed are the > owners of the regular topics. You all are expected, before the next > meeting, to either, > - Send out an update on the status for the topic you are responsible > for to the mailing lists, and then link to it on the the etherpad > - or, provide you updates directly in the etherpad. > Please make sure you do this without fail. > If you do have anything to discuss, add it to the "Open floor" section. > Also, if I've missed out anyone in the addressed list, please make > sure they get this message too. > > Anyone else who wants to share their updates, add it to the 'Other > updates' section. > > Everyone else, go ahead and add anything you want to ask to the "Open > floor" section. Ensure to have your name with the topic you add > (etherpad colours are not reliable), and attend the meeting next week. > When your topic comes up, you'll have the floor. > > I hope that this new format helps make our meetings more colourful and > lively. > > As always, our community meetings will be held every Wednesday at > 1200UTC in #gluster-meeting on Freenode. > See you all there. > > ~kaushal > > [1]: https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-community-meetings > I really like this idea and am all in favor of color + liveliness. Let's give this new format three weeks or so, and we'll review around November 9th to see if we like this experiment. Fair? -- amye -- Amye Scavarda | [email protected] | Gluster Community Lead
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