On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As you may have noticed, I again didn't schedule a meeting for today. > However, I don't want to slip into a routine of nothin' happening. So, > here's a proposal. > > Every other week, we will have a drop-in meeting in IRC. I'll set up an > automatic invite for this. I'll make a point of being there, but > attendance won't be mandatory. This will basically function as open > floor for the topics of the day, but if people have specific topics to > raise, we'll try to organize around that on the mailing list > beforehand. > > The other weeks will alternate between IRC-based business meetings and > subproject status meetings. > > The "business" meetings will focus on tickets and specific agenda > items, and will try to timebox these and avoid extended discussion -- > and therefore will require planning ahead. These meetings will end up > being only monthly, so they can't be the _only_ place we do work, but > basically will serve to make sure that work that needs to be done has > the right people attached, and that things don't slip forever. > > The status meetings will feature presentations from various > subprojects, covering > > - the current state of the subproject > - future plans > - things the team needs from the rest of the project > - any blockers we can help unblock > - big resource requests? > > I'm thinking we will ask for an actual slideshow presentation... with > these -- not really formal, but a little more prepared than a > show-up-and-answer-questions session. > > I asked Chris Roberts from the Marketing Team if he'd be interested in > doing the first of these, and he said he would, so we can use that as a > trial. I'd like to experiment with doing these as recorded video > sessions, ideally with an open-source technology, but if the tech isn't > up to our needs, I'm open to considering something like Google Hangouts > and Youtube, as we've done for Flock. (Would anyone like to raise their > hand to experiment with something like Jitsi? https://jitsi.org/ -- > looks like it can even use all-open codecs.) Or, for some of these, we > could do IRC with follow-along URLs to slides. > > So, concretely, that would look something like: > > - April 27: Council business meeting > - May 4: Open Floor > - May 11: Subproject Status: Marketing > - May 18: Open Floor > - May 25: Council business meeting > - June 1: Open Floor > - June 8: Subproject Status: TBD (QA, maybe?) > - June 15: Open Floor > - June 22: Council business meeting > etc. > > Does this sound good? Is it too slow -- too much open floor? I'm trying > to find a balance between no regular cadence and too much reliance on > meetings (and, avoiding too many "same as last week" reports"). I like this plan. It seems to strike a good balance. If it winds up being a bit too much or too little of one thing or another, we'll figure it out soon enough and can adjust. josh _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss
