Gluster users - Mar 2019 - Proposal: Changes in Gluster Community meetings

As a user, I?d like to visit more of these, but the time slot is my 3AM. Any
possibility for a rolling schedule (move meeting +6 hours each week with rolling
attendance from maintainers?) or an occasional regional meeting 12 hours opposed
to the one you?re proposing?

  -Darrell
> On Mar 25, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <atumball at
redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> We currently have 3 meetings which are public:
> 
> 1. Maintainer's Meeting
> 
> - Runs once in 2 weeks (on Mondays), and current attendance is around 3-5
on an avg, and not much is discussed.
> - Without majority attendance, we can't take any decisions too.
> 
> 2. Community meeting
> 
> - Supposed to happen on #gluster-meeting, every 2 weeks, and is the only
meeting which is for 'Community/Users'. Others are for developers as of
now.
> Sadly attendance is getting closer to 0 in recent times.
> 
> 3. GCS meeting
> 
> - We started it as an effort inside Red Hat gluster team, and opened it up
for community from Jan 2019, but the attendance was always from RHT members, and
haven't seen any traction from wider group.
> 
> So, I have a proposal to call out for cancelling all these meeting, and
keeping just 1 weekly 'Community' meeting, where even topics related to
maintainers and GCS and other projects can be discussed.
> 
> I have a template of a draft template @
https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g
<https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g>
> 
> Please feel free to suggest improvements, both in agenda and in timings.
So, we can have more participation from members of community, which allows more
user - developer interactions, and hence quality of project.
> 
> Waiting for feedbacks,
> 
> Regards,
> Amar
> 
> 
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Thanks for the feedback Darrell,

The new proposal is to have one in North America 'morning' time. (10AM
PST), And another in ASIA day time, which is evening 7pm/6pm in Australia,
9pm Newzealand, 5pm Tokyo, 4pm Beijing.

For example, if we choose Every other Tuesday for meeting, and 1st of the
month is Tuesday, we would have North America time for 1st, and on 15th it
would be ASIA/Pacific time.

Hopefully, this way, we can cover all the timezones, and meeting minutes
would be committed to github repo, so that way, it will be easier for
everyone to be aware of what is happening.

Regards,
Amar

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 8:40 PM Darrell Budic <budic at onholyground.com>
wrote:
> As a user, I?d like to visit more of these, but the time slot is my 3AM.
> Any possibility for a rolling schedule (move meeting +6 hours each week
> with rolling attendance from maintainers?) or an occasional regional
> meeting 12 hours opposed to the one you?re proposing?
>
>   -Darrell
>
> On Mar 25, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <
> atumball at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> We currently have 3 meetings which are public:
>
> 1. Maintainer's Meeting
>
> - Runs once in 2 weeks (on Mondays), and current attendance is around 3-5
> on an avg, and not much is discussed.
> - Without majority attendance, we can't take any decisions too.
>
> 2. Community meeting
>
> - Supposed to happen on #gluster-meeting, every 2 weeks, and is the only
> meeting which is for 'Community/Users'. Others are for developers
as of
> now.
> Sadly attendance is getting closer to 0 in recent times.
>
> 3. GCS meeting
>
> - We started it as an effort inside Red Hat gluster team, and opened it up
> for community from Jan 2019, but the attendance was always from RHT
> members, and haven't seen any traction from wider group.
>
> So, I have a proposal to call out for cancelling all these meeting, and
> keeping just 1 weekly 'Community' meeting, where even topics
related to
> maintainers and GCS and other projects can be discussed.
>
> I have a template of a draft template @
> https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g
>
> Please feel free to suggest improvements, both in agenda and in timings.
> So, we can have more participation from members of community, which allows
> more user - developer interactions, and hence quality of project.
>
> Waiting for feedbacks,
>
> Regards,
> Amar
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
>
>
>
-- 
Amar Tumballi (amarts)
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