Hello pluggies! After the recent online meetup, there was a lot of post-meetup discussion around how to be efficient in managing tasks / arranging meetups in the group. We identified a few important gaps in the current process that is followed. Out of those, a couple of important issues were:
1. How do we gather feedback from the members on topics that interest them? 2. Post a meetup, how can we efficiently share resources about the meetup topic so that people can easily find them in one place instead of sifting through the mail archives? After a bit of discussion and trying to gather some inspiration from the beautiful FOSS world, we decided to follow ILUG-D's approach of managing talks/meetups over a git repository. The process here is to create an issue for every topic that any member is interested in and then arrange meetups as per the available list. Post the meetup, any feedback and resources can be shared over the same issue on git and it can then be closed as "Delivered". This also helps us track the topics that we've already covered and ensures that every meetup is unique. The next step was then to create a repository on some provider. Given that PLUG always advocates using FOSS tools/software the decision was simple. Presenting to you the "un-official" GitLab group for PLUG: https://git.fosscommunity.in/plug We have created a repo called "Talks and Workshops board" which will serve as our issue tracker for topics to cover in meetups. https://git.fosscommunity.in/plug/talks I encourage everyone to raise issues on this repository for topics that you'd like to see covered in future PLUG meetups! P.S: This new group and repo on GitLab is not limited to help manage meetups. We can do lots more and we're open for ideas from you! Cheers! FAQ's: 1. Why is this repo un-official? A. Because we'd like to give this approach a try. Official status will eventually follow. 2. Why not just do everything over the mailing list? A. Mailing lists are great when you want to have a discussion on one specific topic like troubleshooting issues, presenting your opinions about vim vs. emacs or to share updates with the wider group. As per our experience, they don't help when you want to decide on what topics to cover in the next meetup. 3. Why git.fosscommunity.in? Why not any other provider? A. The sign in page of the instance should answer this question - https://git.fosscommunity.in/users/sign_in TL;DR - It uses 100% Free Software and is maintained by friends over at FSCI. 4. Who maintains git.fosscommunity.in? A. Free Software Community of India who are a group of Free Software enthusiasts. You can learn more about them here - https://fsci.in/ 5. Who are the admins of this GitLab group? A. You can have a look at all Owners and Maintainers of the group on this page - https://git.fosscommunity.in/groups/plug/-/group_members 6. How do I become a member of the group? A. You'll have to sign up for an account on the GitLab instance. After signing up, you can ask for membership from the group page itself or just contact any of the owners and they'll do the needful. 7. How do I contact the Owners of the group? A. You can catch them over at #pluggies IRC channel or just reply to this email and any one of them will revert for sure. -- Dhanesh B. Sabane https://dhanesh95.gitlab.io PGP ID: 0xB69A98C9C1642329 Fingerprint: 9655 11F2 0D18 E76A 2396 D64D B69A 98C9 C164 2329 _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
