On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Brian Bouterse wrote:
I'd like to have a VCL developers call, where the following agenda
can be discussed with the community. If you'd like to join the
discussion, it will be from 1-3pm EST on Thurs Feb 5th. To join,
dial in to 919.515.7151.
I apologize for the late notice; my invite a few days ago never made
it onto the list. If you're reading this, my e-mail subscription
problem has been resolved.
Tentative Agenda (this gets us started, please add):
1) Update of the ESX provisioning module
2) Update of the OS modularization effort
3) Possibility of using NX as a connection protocol
4) <insert your agenda item here>
Hi Brian,
Sorry I didn't read this sooner.
I think this is pretty short notice to be calling a project conference
call and I'm pretty uncomfortable with the idea, in general. Community
conference calls are pretty rare at Apache. I believe that there are
projects that do have them. I've never been personally involved in
one. Phone calls can be exclusionary -- for instance, I'm unavailable
from 1-3 tomorrow...
The number one sign of community health for any project at Apache is
communication on mailing lists. To date, I have not seen a lot of
communication occurring on the VCL dev list. There has been some
communication -- I haven't been overly worred. However, perhaps I
should be.
A few notes... You mention OS modularization and NX connection
protocols as topics of conversation. However, I can't find any mention
of these topics on the dev mailing list.
Personally, I don't think you want to be holding project conference
calls. Certainly not this early in your incubation. Before you hold
any project phone calls, I'd want to see:
1) A discussion about holding conference calls. Is the *community* in
favor of holding them?
2) Why are conference calls needed? What's wrong with dev list
communication?
3) How will you be equitable in scheduling conference calls. Rotating
schedule? etc
4) Will the phone calls be recorded? Who is going to take notes and
distribute the topics of conversations to the dev list?
--kevan
