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On 09/15/2015 10:50 AM, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What can we do to make the cross-project meeting more helpful and 
> useful for cross-project communications? I started with a proposal to 
> move it to a different time, which morphed into an idea to alternate 
> times. But, knowing that we need to layer communications I wonder if 
> we should troubleshoot cross-project communications further? These are 
> the current ways cross-project communications happen:
>
> 1. The weekly meeting in IRC
> 2. The cross-project specs and reviewing those
> 3. Direct connections between team members
> 4. Cross-project talks at the Summits
>
> What are some of the problems with each layer?
>
> 1. weekly meeting: time zones, global reach, size of cross-project 
> concerns due to multiple projects being affected, another meeting for 
> PTLs to attend and pay attention to

I would actually love to attend the cross-project IRC meeting but it 
falls in a perfectly bad time for my time zone so I can never make it. 
When daylight savings time end the first week of November I'll start 
attending because it will be 1 hour earlier for me.

> 2. specs: don't seem to get much attention unless they're brought up 
> at weekly meeting, finding owners for the work needing to be done in a 
> spec is difficult since each project team has its own priorities
> 3. direct communications: decisions from these comms are difficult to 
> then communicate more widely, it's difficult to get time with busy PTLs
> 4. Summits: only happens twice a year, decisions made then need to be 
> widely communicated
>
> I'm sure there are more details and problems I'm missing -- feel free 
> to fill in as needed.
>
> Lastly, what suggestions do you have for solving problems with any of 
> these layers?
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> -- 
> Anne Gentle
> Rackspace
> Principal Engineer
> www.justwriteclick.com <http://www.justwriteclick.com>
>
>
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