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​Is it possible to move the meeting time so it's friendly towards folks in Europe?


Also, https://irccloud.com<https://www.irccloud.com/> is a great web-based IRC client which is both user-friendly and free. IMO its UI/UX is far better for newcomers than something we can write from scratch.


Jamie


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From: Christopher Aedo <caedo at us.ibm.com>
Sent: 10 May 2016 01:30
Cc: user-committee at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [User-committee] Application Ecosystem Working Group Post Austin Summit Priority List

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Christopher Aedo <caedo at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Callaghan, John <john.callaghan at hpe.com>
> wrote:
>> Coming away from our productive working group session we established the
>> following three priorities for the group for the next cycle.
>>
>> A link to the session etherpad is listed and welcome to input here:
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppEcoSystem_WG_Austin_Meetup
>>
>> Working Session Goals:
>>
>> Define top 3 priorities from Agenda for the Newton cycle
>>
>> 1.       Review Charter
>>
>> §  (Task Force - Subgroup determined from next post summit meeting)
>>
>> §  Volunteers: John Callaghan HPE,
>>
>> 2.       Python SDK - First App and get it published We need a win for
>> Python whether it be pythonsdk, shade or libcloud
>>
>> §  Craig Sterrett to drive with SDK owners
>>
>> §  Preparation for training to add value in Barcelona
>>
>> 3.       Consider IRC in addition to 2 x monthly calls
>>
>> §  Christopher Aedo to drive with foundation through User-committee
>> mailing
>> list
>
> Thank you John for sending this note out and keeping us on task here :)
>
> Regarding IRC there has been a different thread (subject "[User-committee]
> working group comms") where we've been having a conversation around the
> tools we can use for enabling IRC (and other communication channels.)  For
> those that haven't been following along, I volunteered to work with the
> OpenStack Infra team to provide a web-based IRC client.  The first step of
> this will be for me to write a spec, and following that we'll set up a
> server that will be available to interested parties.  Expect this service to
> be offered on an experimental basis at first, as we'll need some time with
> real users to work out the kinks, but I expect the experience to be largely
> painless for working group members who are interested.  The end result will
> be web-based access to IRC that also offers persistence similar to Slack
> (i.e. when you close the browser, your persona is not logged out - so next
> time you connect, you can "scroll back" to catch yourself up on the
> conversation).
>
> Additionally, Leong from Intel shared a cheat sheet that lets anyone quickly
> and easily hop on IRC from their web browser:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m--DFSwTPqKmxGNxP7ThDYuNr017wI_bUQOtqyaeyG0/edit
> In the short term I think this is great.  In the long term though, I hope to
> provide an even better experience that keeps folks around on IRC as well :)
>
> Regarding having our meetings on IRC, Andreas Jeager pointed out the
> communication standards we've agreed on for OpenStack projects at large
> (http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/open-community.html#public-meetings-on-irc).
> We can debate the applicability to working groups, but I'd argue we have a
> LOT of evidence that holding meetings over IRC scales well and is very
> inclusive.  To that end I propose we hold our bi-weekly IRC meetings on one
> of the established IRC channels.  If we intend to continue with the same
> schedule for now (3pm PST/10pm UTC) we can use the IRC channel
> #openstack-meeting.  If there are no objections, I'll submit a patch to the
> IRC-meetings repository to officially reserve our time slot.

Enough time has passed without any objections to this plan, and the intention was confirmed in the App Ecosystem WG meeting today.  I submitted the following patch which will reserve the IRC channel "#openstack-meeting" on a bi-weekly basis at our normal meeting time: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/314322/

We also agreed to give this time slot a few weeks in order for the existing members to get comfortable with IRC.  If there are additional folks who would be interested in joining but find this time inconvenient, we will coordinate a poll for a new meeting time (i.e. something that engages our friends in Europe).  For now though, the plan will be to continue having weekly meetings, alternating the venue between conference call and IRC each week.

-Christopher





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