Hello everybody, In the past we’ve done two in-person developer summits with great success, both from a team-building but also from a technical discussion point of view. But these were ~1/2 a decade a part and took quite a bit to organise.
Given that meeting in-person continues to to be a pain and given that we all learned how to do video calls in the past few years, I’d like to propose a recurring synchronous meeting where we can discuss CouchDB’s development in a different format than we do at the moment. There are a number of high-level features that we’d need larger input on but that are have enough moving parts that it would make sense to discuss face to face (via video/audio chat). In detail: - we run a monthly video/audio meeting of ~90 minute length where we can hash out CouchDB development topics - in the beginning, I’d like to dedicate each meeting to a single topic, just so we don’t get distracted too much (I have a short-list of proposals for topics, but that’s for a later day, I’m sure we all do :), maybe a topic needs multiple meetings, maybe we have time for two topics per meeting, but let’s be clear and limited on the agenda, so everybody can prepare with minimal effort - each topic discussed will have a reasonably complete written proposal that folks can read through in preparation - if any one can’t make any particular meeting, no problem, there is no mandatory attendance, and we are not making any project binding decisions in those meetings - ideally, we keep decent notes so that folks can catch up, and maybe we can do a recording of it all for posterity My suggestion would be that pick a date and time in the somewhat near future and then stick to that date and time on a monthly basis. Since it is (northern hemisphere) summer, it is possible that you, dear reader, won’t be able to attend the inaugural edition, just select something that works from the next iteration onwards. I put up a date and time selection poll, it is aiming for late-EU and early US-West compatibility since I expect that’s where most of the folks are going to be: https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/fUQFofPoezvvz9ev I’m looking forward to seeing you all :) Best Jan —