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I have read very good ideas in this thread but I somehow can’t shake the feeling that people who are quite comfortable with the irc meeting are looking for a solution for people who are not.  So, before we do any changes I would send out a survey and see what the developers we are serving actually want. 

In my experience interacting with the TC it has always been tough to get in touch with people and I will therefore institute (at least for me) office hours where you can interact with me each week and bring me your issues. 

To close, the other day I was listening to somebody describing how she picked mentors. Not being a native English speaker she picked her mentors based on if they would speak in her native language with her. This really drives home the point about diversity and how important it is to recruit and sponsor people from different backgrounds for the TC. 

Thanks,
German

On 4/12/17, 7:30 AM, "Flavio Percoco" <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:

    On 12/04/17 11:07 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
    >Ildiko Vancsa wrote:
    >>> On 2017. Apr 12., at 3:18, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com
    >>> <mailto:mordred at inaugust.com>> wrote:
    >>> [...]
    >>> Email allows someone to compose an actual structured narrative, and
    >>> for replies to do the same. Some of us are loquatious and I imagine
    >>> can be hard to follow even with time to read.
    >>>
    >>> IRC allows someone to respond quickly, and for someone to be like "yo,
    >>> totes sorry, I didn't mean that at all LOL" and to walk things back
    >>> before a pile of people become mortally insulted.
    >>>
    >>> Like now - hopefully you'll give me a smiley in IRC ... but you might
    >>> not, and I'm stuck worrying that my tone came across wrong. Then if
    >>> you just don't respond because ZOMG-EMAIL, I might start day drinking.
    >>
    >> Big +1 on balance.
    >>
    >> I agree in general that we need to revisit how to be more inclusive and
    >> how to provide as equal conditions to people all around the globe as
    >> possible.
    >>
    >> That said I still would like to keep the ability to have allocated time
    >> for synchronous communication and allow the TC to be more of a team as
    >> opposed to a group of people driving their own and some shared missions.
    >> I think it helps with seeing maybe different parts but still the same
    >> big picture and making the group more efficient with decision making and
    >> bringing the community forward.
    >> [...]
    >
    >Agree with you Ildiko and Monty, we still need sync communication to get
    >a better feel of everyone's feelings on a particular issue, especially
    >on complex issues. At the same time, a unique weekly meeting is actively
    >preventing people from participating. It is also very active and noisy,
    >the timebox can be painful, and its weekly cadence makes a good reason
    >for procrastinating in reviews until the topic is raised in meeting,
    >where final decision is made. Creating multiple official meetings
    >spreads the pain instead of eliminating it. It makes it easier for more
    >people to join, but more difficult for any given member to participate
    >to every meeting. Our ability to quickly process changes might be affected.
    >
    >One idea I've been considering is eliminating the one and only sacred
    >one-hour weekly TC meeting, and encouraging ad-hoc discussions (on
    >#openstack-dev for example) between change proposers and smaller groups
    >of TC members present in the same timezone. That would give us a good
    >feel of what everyone thinks, reduce noise, and happen at various times
    >during the day on a public forum, giving an opportunity for more people
    >to jump in the discussion. The informal nature of those discussions
    >would make the governance reviews the clear focal point for coordination
    >and final decision.
    >
    >It's clearly not the perfect silver bullet though, so I'd very much like
    >to hear other ideas :)
    
    
    I believe I shared this with you on one of our conversations over dinner one
    night. I'm glad to see you're more convinced now. I've talked about this with
    you and other folks among the TC and I'm growing more convinced that it's the
    right thing to do.
    
    I've toyed with this idea for a bit already and I also mentioned it in my reply
    to Matt[0] yesterday. As I mentioned in my email, I believe most can be achieved
    on gerrit and we can instead focus on having a better way for ad-hoc
    conversations and mentoring of people that need support from the TC.
    
    [0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-April/115255.html
    
    Flavio
    
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