A few weeks ago we started a new Survey to make our Community Sync more
inclusive (for more time zones).
Thank you for all the answers (22), I think it helps a lot to make our
Sync more effective and more inclusive.
The raw results are available from here:
https://home.apache.org/~elek/ozone-survey-results.csv
But in this mail I will give a quick summary with the possible action items.
1. QUESTION: Do you read the meeting minutes from the ozone-dev mailing
list? Do they help for you?
ANSWERS:
The answer was a strong yes. (82%).
ACTION ITEMS:
We should continue to write meeting minutes and publish it on the
mailing list.
As I am not always available (Summer is coming) I will ask volunteers to
write it when I can't do it.
Based on the suggestion below, I will start to archive the minutes on
the wiki (as Anu did). But I prefer to include the full text in the
mailing lists too (as it's also archived, with different method.
NOTABLE COMMENTS:
* Maybe we should notify the meeting though multi-way, mail-list,
slack, wechat, and any other way.
* It would be really great if you could summarize weekly meeting notes
in wiki like
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/2020-01-07+Meeting+notes.
2. QUESTION: Do you prefer recordings of the meetings?
ANSWERS:
38 % : yes
33 % : yes, with limited retention
ACTION ITEMS:
As it's 71 % for recording, I think we should start to record it, share
it, but we can delete the recordings after 1 month
3. QUESTION: What is your preferred scheduling scheme?
ANSWERS:
41 %: One call a week, same time
36 %: One call a week / alternating times
ACTION ITEMS:
Here, I don't know what should we do. Both can work, but we agreed that
the existing one should be kept. There is no good decision here as far
as I see.
I will propose to start a new meeting at EMEA/APAC friendly time which
can work for PST (PST late night but before midnight).
We will see how does it work and can transform some of the events to
more specific design discussion.
NOTABLE COMMENTS:
* its better to talk English slowly and clearly, for some body don't
good at the English with accent. Its better to have translator.
4. QUESTIONS What is your preferred workday for the call
ANSWERS: beginning of the week is better (Monday 72% ---> Friday 18%)
5. QUESTION: Which time is best for you (in your local time, defined in
the previous question)
ANSWERS:
I analyzed it with google spreadsheet, but but time slots are the following:
A) existing slot
GMT/Belfast: 16
Budapest (summer): 18
Beijing: 24
New York (summer): 12
Seattle/California (summer): 9
India: 21:30
feedback categories:
Good + Acceptable: 11 (8 + 3)
Impossible: 7
B) additional slot
GMT/Belfast: 8:30
Budapest (summer): 6:30
Beijing: 12:30
New York (summer): 0:30
Seattle/California (summer): 21:30
India: 10:00
Good + Acceptable: 12 (9 + 3)
Impossible: 6
(Note, It's a 2-2:30 hours slot the time can be moved, but later is
harder for Europe (6 am), later is harder for Pacific (22 = 10pm)
ACTION ITEM:
I propose to start a new Sync at 8:30 am GMT. Based on the vote,
Wednesday seems to be a good choice, but as far as I know there is an
unofficial sync between a few contributors at Friday which also can be
moved later.
I think we can start it weekly (harder to switch to alternating times
IMHO) but with more focused:
* having an agenda in advance!
* With agenda we can spend more time on design discussions
6. ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK:
* A way to propose topics ahead of time, or to sign up for a time slot
to ask for inputs on a topic
* As we have only hundred contributor now, we should do something for
getting more contributor, for example, more talk, more meetup online or
offline, friendly to contribute, new contributor guide, more concept
documents, do not cherry pick commits from a contributor...its honor for
them about the number of commit. As community over code, we should
encourage contributor to do more contribute. Each release, thanks the
contributor of contribute in current release. Mostly important, let more
company join ozone development. So, paste the sides, youtube link,
blogs, events into homepage of Ozone. Hope our community be more strong.
* We could send out agenda before the weekly sync up to the community.
* It would be great if there would be even a vague agenda for this
calls. Just only with the things we already know the last workday before
the meeting...
Please note, all of them are filtered by my interpretation. Please add
your opinion if it's different.
Thanks a lot,
Marton
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