On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Amye Scavarda <amye@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Our weekly community meetings have become mainly one hour of status >> updates. This just drains the life out of the meeting, and doesn't >> encourage new attendees to speak up. >> >> Let's try and change this. For the next meeting lets try skipping >> updates all together and instead just dive into the 'Open floor' part >> of the meeting. >> >> Let's have the updates to the regular topics be provided by the >> regular owners before the meeting. This could either be through >> sending out emails to the mailing lists, or updates entered into the >> meeting etherpad[1]. As the host, I'll make sure to link to these >> updates when the meeting begins, and in the meeting minutes. People >> can view these updates later in their own time. People who need to >> provide updates on AIs, just update the etherpad[1]. It will be >> visible from there. >> >> Now let's move why I addressed this mail to this large and specific >> set of people. The people who have been directly addressed are the >> owners of the regular topics. You all are expected, before the next >> meeting, to either, >> - Send out an update on the status for the topic you are responsible >> for to the mailing lists, and then link to it on the the etherpad >> - or, provide you updates directly in the etherpad. >> Please make sure you do this without fail. >> If you do have anything to discuss, add it to the "Open floor" section. >> Also, if I've missed out anyone in the addressed list, please make >> sure they get this message too. >> >> Anyone else who wants to share their updates, add it to the 'Other >> updates' section. >> >> Everyone else, go ahead and add anything you want to ask to the "Open >> floor" section. Ensure to have your name with the topic you add >> (etherpad colours are not reliable), and attend the meeting next week. >> When your topic comes up, you'll have the floor. >> >> I hope that this new format helps make our meetings more colourful and >> lively. >> >> As always, our community meetings will be held every Wednesday at >> 1200UTC in #gluster-meeting on Freenode. >> See you all there. >> >> ~kaushal >> >> [1]: https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-community-meetings > > > I really like this idea and am all in favor of color + liveliness. > Let's give this new format three weeks or so, and we'll review around > November 9th to see if we like this experiment. > Fair? > -- amye Sounds good to me. > > -- > Amye Scavarda | amye@xxxxxxxxxx | Gluster Community Lead _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
