Hi Deni, I’m glad you’re on board. All times are UTC, apologies for the missing info!
Best Jan — > On 21. Jul 2022, at 17:34, Denitsa Burroughs <denitsa.burrou...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Jan, > > That's a fantastic idea. Thank you for reviving the meet-ups. I hope we can > establish a monthly cadence. Quick question: what TZ are the times in the > poll listed in? > > Thanks, > > Deni > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 12:24 PM Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > >> 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 >> —
