I have a question, and a concern about this series of meetings. It
will be another month soon, so I think another one is coming down the
line.
Community meetings to broadcast what has been going on in the project
and to try and attract new contributors are fine, at least as far as I
know.
However I think it is also a natural tendency that, if you get enough
committers in a room, and start talking about something, they start
trying to solve problems. Solving problems requires making decisions.
And as we all know, that's not something that can take place anywhere
but the mailing list.
I would propose to change the name of the meeting to "The Monthly
Apache Texera Update". I think "Sync" is ambiguous and doesn't clearly
communicate that this meeting has to be purely informative, and
nothing more.
Furthermore, I would like to run the meeting this one time, to
hopefully demonstrate what I mean, concretely. I don't want there to
be conversations generated that tend toward topics that don't belong,
and if they do I want there to be a reflex among all members to say
something along the lines of "Take it to the list.".
What does everyone think?
- Ian

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM Chen Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> On behalf of the Texera PPMC, we'd like to inform you of our next monthly
> sync meeting on Tuesday, August 25, Tuesday, 2:00 - 3:00 PM PDT:
>
>    - Zoom https://uci.zoom.us/j/91067554352
>    - In-person: If you are at UCI, feel free to join us in DBH Room 2065
>
> All PPMC members and mentors are welcome to attend.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chen Li
>
> on behalf of the Texera PPMC

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