Community video chats?

[Phillip Cohen]

Great, glad there's interest.

How would Thursday at 10am PST / 1pm EST  / 6pm UTC work? This is
early enough for London to join, but not too early that California
won't. Friday mornings are less desirable (because that's Friday
evening in London) but Monday and Tuesday morning could work as well.

> I'm happy to try and join. I've considered having VC-available "office
> hours" that people could use to get help on patches, debugging,
> whatever. If there's interest in that I can try and pick a time.

+1. Individual office hours are a great idea in their own right.

> perhaps to start with
> we could try and reach out to known contributors that might miss this
> kind of thing on the list?

Sure, I'll start a wiki page so it could be sent to non-list-readers.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> wrote:
>
> Durham Goode <durham at fb.com> writes:
>
>> On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +0000, Phil Cohen wrote:
>>>> Many of us enjoy the fast-paced collaboration that happens during Mercurial's sprints. Alas, they only happen twice a year. In the interim, many of us have used ad-hoc videoconferencing to whiteboard ideas ahead of code review, and this has worked pretty well. It'd be great to do even more here.
>>>>
>>>> One thing that was suggested in the last group get-together was to establish a regular time for community members to “hang out” on VC if they're available, and discuss any technical topics or proposals that come up. The goal is for this to be informal, replicating the sprint atmosphere as much as possible, so there'd be no need for a strict agenda (though we could create one if there's sufficient demand for topics). If nobody ends up wanting to talk about anything (a remote scenario, perhaps :) we can always end early.
>>>>
>>>> These video chat sessions should hopefully fill a niche that's poorly satisfied by IRC or e-mail today: discussing topics in-depth at high bandwidth before patches hit the mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> Does this sound like something people would want to participate in? If so, we should hash out a good time (spitballing: Friday mornings? One problem is between US, Europe, and Japan, you can only ever pick satisfactory times for two of the three), frequency (fortnightly?), and videochat platform (Augie and I have used https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__appear.in&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A&m=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-2A&s=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU&e=  before and it seems to work well).
>>>
>>> I'm happy to try and join. I've considered having VC-available "office
>>> hours" that people could use to get help on patches, debugging,
>>> whatever. If there's interest in that I can try and pick a time.
>>>
>>> Also happy to just casually hang out on VC once every couple of weeks.
>>
>> I'm all for it.  I think it would help keep things unblocked and the
>> sprint discussions tend to motivate people so perhaps regular
>> discussions would help keep the motivation flowing.
>>
>> We have plenty of topics going around these days:
>>
>> - phabricator
>> - sparse
>> - obsstore
>> - upstreaming other extensions
>>
>> to name a few
>
> I, too, am all for it. If for nothing else than to help convey tone /
> feeling which text cannot do.
>
> I'd be up for helping to get this going as well; perhaps to start with
> we could try and reach out to known contributors that might miss this
> kind of thing on the list?
>
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