Gluster users - Nov 2016 - Community Meetings - Feedback on new meeting format

Hi All,

We have begun following a new format for the weekly community meetings
for the past 4 weeks.

The new format is just a massive Open floor for everyone to discuss a
topic of their choice. The old boring weekly updates have been
relegated to just being notes in the meeting agenda. The meetings are
being captured into wiki [1][2][3], and give a good picture of what's
been happening in the community in the past week.

The format was trialed the format for 3 weeks (we actually did an
extra week, and will follow it next week as well). We'd like hear
feedback about this from the community. It'll be good if your feedback
covers the following,
1. What did you like or not like about the new format?
2. What could be done better?
3. Should we continue with the format?

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I'll begin with my feedback.

This has resulted in several good changes,
a. Meetings are now more livelier with more people speaking up and
making themselves heard.
b. Each topic in the open floor gets a lot more time for discussion.
c. Developers are sending out weekly updates of works they are doing,
and linking those mails in the meeting agenda.

Thought the response and attendance to the initial 2 meetings was
good, it dropped for the last 2. This week in particular didn't have a
lot of updates added to the meeting agenda. It seems like interest has
dropped already.

We could probably do a better job of collecting updates to make it
easier for people to add their updates, but the current format of
adding updates to etherpad(/hackmd) is simple enough. I'd like to know
if there is anything else preventing people from providing updates.

I vote we continue with the new format.
---

Everyone please provide your feedback by replying to this mail. We'll
be going over the feedback in the next meeting.

Thanks.
~kaushal

[1]: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-Meeting-2016-11-16
[2]: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-Meeting-2016-11-09
[3]: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-Meeting-2016-11-02

> This has resulted in several good changes,
> a. Meetings are now more livelier with more people speaking up and
> making themselves heard.
> b. Each topic in the open floor gets a lot more time for discussion.
> c. Developers are sending out weekly updates of works they are doing,
> and linking those mails in the meeting agenda.
I agree with these points.  People seem much more engaged during the
meeting, which is a good thing.
> Thought the response and attendance to the initial 2 meetings was
> good, it dropped for the last 2. This week in particular didn't have a
> lot of updates added to the meeting agenda. It seems like interest has
> dropped already.
> 
> We could probably do a better job of collecting updates to make it
> easier for people to add their updates, but the current format of
> adding updates to etherpad(/hackmd) is simple enough. I'd like to know
> if there is anything else preventing people from providing updates.
I'm one of the culprits here.  As an observation, not an excuse, I'll
point out that we were already missing lots of updates from people
who didn't even show up to the meetings.  Has the overall level of
missed updates gone up or down?  Has the level of attention paid to
them?  If people provide updates about as consistently, and those
updates are at least as detailed (possibly more because they're
written and meant to be read asynchronously), then we might actually
be *ahead* of where we were before.

The new format gets a big +1 from me.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have begun following a new format for the weekly community meetings
> for the past 4 weeks.
>
> The new format is just a massive Open floor for everyone to discuss a
> topic of their choice. The old boring weekly updates have been
> relegated to just being notes in the meeting agenda. The meetings are
> being captured into wiki [1][2][3], and give a good picture of what's
> been happening in the community in the past week.
>
> The format was trialed the format for 3 weeks (we actually did an
> extra week, and will follow it next week as well). We'd like hear
> feedback about this from the community. It'll be good if your feedback
> covers the following,
> 1. What did you like or not like about the new format?
>
I like the new format because (a) it doesn't look monotonous as it used to
be earlier (b) it's much productive as the floor remains open for
discussions for most part of the slot we have.

> 2. What could be done better?
>
I'd definitely like to see updates coming from all the major
components/initiatives to get to know the over all work going across the
Gluster world.

3. Should we continue with the format?
>
A big +1 from me.

>
> ---
> I'll begin with my feedback.
>
> This has resulted in several good changes,
> a. Meetings are now more livelier with more people speaking up and
> making themselves heard.
> b. Each topic in the open floor gets a lot more time for discussion.
> c. Developers are sending out weekly updates of works they are doing,
> and linking those mails in the meeting agenda.
>
> Thought the response and attendance to the initial 2 meetings was
> good, it dropped for the last 2. This week in particular didn't have a
> lot of updates added to the meeting agenda. It seems like interest has
> dropped already.
>
> We could probably do a better job of collecting updates to make it
> easier for people to add their updates, but the current format of
> adding updates to etherpad(/hackmd) is simple enough. I'd like to know
> if there is anything else preventing people from providing updates.
>
> I vote we continue with the new format.
> ---
>
> Everyone please provide your feedback by replying to this mail. We'll
> be going over the feedback in the next meeting.
>
> Thanks.
> ~kaushal
>
> [1]: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-
> Meeting-2016-11-16
> [2]: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-
> Meeting-2016-11-09
> [3]: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-
> Meeting-2016-11-02
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