On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:08 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote:
> > On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohen <phil...@phillip.io>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Great, glad there's interest.
> > 
> > How would Thursday at 10am PST / 1pm EST  / 6pm UTC work? This is
> > early enough for London to join, but not too early that California
> > won't. Friday mornings are less desirable (because that's Friday
> > evening in London) but Monday and Tuesday morning could work as
> > well.
> 
> I can't do 1300-1500 America/New_York on Thursdays. Pretty much any
> other time in the week would work. Maybe shoot for Tuesdays?
> 

I'm also interested, 6pm UTC (5pm or 7pm could works too) on every day
except Tuesdays would works for me with a preference for Thursday.

> > 
> > > I'm happy to try and join. I've considered having VC-available
> > > "office
> > > hours" that people could use to get help on patches, debugging,
> > > whatever. If there's interest in that I can try and pick a time.
> > 
> > +1. Individual office hours are a great idea in their own right.
> > 
> > > perhaps to start with
> > > we could try and reach out to known contributors that might miss
> > > this
> > > kind of thing on the list?
> > 
> > Sure, I'll start a wiki page so it could be sent to non-list-
> > readers.
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Sean Farley <s...@farley.io>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Durham Goode <dur...@fb.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +0000, Phil Cohen wrote:
> > > > > > Many of us enjoy the fast-paced collaboration that happens
> > > > > > during Mercurial's sprints. Alas, they only happen twice a
> > > > > > year. In the interim, many of us have used ad-hoc
> > > > > > videoconferencing to whiteboard ideas ahead of code review,
> > > > > > and this has worked pretty well. It'd be great to do even
> > > > > > more here.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > One thing that was suggested in the last group get-together 
> > > > > > was to establish a regular time for community members to
> > > > > > “hang out” on VC if they're available, and discuss any
> > > > > > technical topics or proposals that come up. The goal is for
> > > > > > this to be informal, replicating the sprint atmosphere as
> > > > > > much as possible, so there'd be no need for a strict agenda
> > > > > > (though we could create one if there's sufficient demand
> > > > > > for topics). If nobody ends up wanting to talk about
> > > > > > anything (a remote scenario, perhaps :) we can always end
> > > > > > early.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > These video chat sessions should hopefully fill a niche
> > > > > > that's poorly satisfied by IRC or e-mail today: discussing
> > > > > > topics in-depth at high bandwidth before patches hit the
> > > > > > mailing list.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Does this sound like something people would want to
> > > > > > participate in? If so, we should hash out a good time
> > > > > > (spitballing: Friday mornings? One problem is between US,
> > > > > > Europe, and Japan, you can only ever pick satisfactory
> > > > > > times for two of the three), frequency (fortnightly?), and
> > > > > > videochat platform (Augie and I have used https://urldefens
> > > > > > e.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-
> > > > > > 3A__appear.in&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=nuarHzhP1
> > > > > > wi1T9iURRCj1A&m=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-
> > > > > > 2A&s=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU&e=  before
> > > > > > and it seems to work well).
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm happy to try and join. I've considered having VC-
> > > > > available "office
> > > > > hours" that people could use to get help on patches,
> > > > > debugging,
> > > > > whatever. If there's interest in that I can try and pick a
> > > > > time.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Also happy to just casually hang out on VC once every couple
> > > > > of weeks.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm all for it.  I think it would help keep things unblocked
> > > > and the
> > > > sprint discussions tend to motivate people so perhaps regular
> > > > discussions would help keep the motivation flowing.
> > > > 
> > > > We have plenty of topics going around these days:
> > > > 
> > > > - phabricator
> > > > - sparse
> > > > - obsstore
> > > > - upstreaming other extensions
> > > > 
> > > > to name a few
> > > 
> > > I, too, am all for it. If for nothing else than to help convey
> > > tone /
> > > feeling which text cannot do.
> > > 
> > > I'd be up for helping to get this going as well; perhaps to start
> > > with
> > > we could try and reach out to known contributors that might miss
> > > this
> > > kind of thing on the list?
> > > 
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