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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In this case, I see the mentoring to be more like “office hours”, which can be done by ci operators & other volunteers spread across time zones. I think this
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ramy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Kurt Taylor [mailto:kurt.r.taylor@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stefano Maffulli<br>
<b>Cc:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); openstack-infra@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [third-party]Time for Additional Meeting for third-party<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Stefano Maffulli <<a href="mailto:stefano@openstack.org" target="_blank">stefano@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On 12/05/2014 07:08 AM, Kurt Taylor wrote:<br>
> 1. Meeting content: Having 2 meetings per week is more than is needed at<br>
> this stage of the working group. There just isn't enough meeting content<br>
> to justify having two meetings every week.<br>
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I'd like to discuss this further: the stated objectives of the meetings<br>
are very wide and may allow for more than one slot per week. In<br>
particular I'm seeing the two below as good candidates for 'meet as many<br>
times as possible':<br>
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* to provide a forum for the curious and for OpenStack programs who<br>
are not yet in this space but may be in the future<br>
* to encourage questions from third party folks and support the<br>
sourcing of answers<o:p></o:p></p>
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As I mentioned above, probably one way to do this is to make some slots<br>
more focused on engaging newcomers and answering questions, more like<br>
serendipitous mentoring sessions with the less involved, while another<br>
slot could be dedicated to more focused and long term efforts, with more<br>
committed people?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is an excellent idea, let's split the meetings into:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) Mentoring - mentoring new CI team members and operators, help them understand infra tools and processes. Anita can continue her fantastic work here.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) Working Group - working meeting for documentation, reviewing patches for relevant work, and improving the consumability of infra CI components. I will be happy to chair these meetings initially. I am sure I can get help with these meetings
for the other time zones also.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With this approach we can also continue to use the new meeting times voted on by the group, and each is focused on targeting a specific group with very different needs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Stefano!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)<o:p></o:p></p>
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