Thanks all for putting in your meeting preferences. By random draw, Wednesday, August 3rd, 16:00 UTC is the date/time for our first Monthly Developer Meeting \o/
The two things to sort out are: 1. the conference platform to choose. I can volunteer a paid-for Zoom.us account that allows for up to 100 participants and recording of the meeting. Anyone with a web browser can participate. 2. what do we talk about? :D — As outlined in the proposal, we should pick one topic and go deep on it. I suggest we discuss “What is CouchDB 4.0 going to look like”. This likely includes some introductory discussions about various features we’d like to see. We can then discuss those in mo detail in later meetings. Best Jan — > On 19. Jul 2022, at 18:24, 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 > —
