[IPython-dev] IPython "lab meetings" on g+ hangouts on air

[MinRK]

sounds good, and works for me.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like this idea and the time works fine for me...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > as Brian just mentioned, we had a google hangout discussion today,
> > that arose impromptu from having a chat room discussion where it was
> > obvious we needed more bandwidth than just typing can provide.
> >
> > Today (perhaps because of all the changes Google made yesterday, who
> > knows), g+ was a bit glitchy, and we were unable to make the hangout
> > on-air, so it ended up not being recorded.  But in general we want all
> > these discussions to be public, for example here's our previous one:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb35M8cW7o4
> >
> > While I think it's great to jump in on video conversations like this
> > as-needed from the dev room or a github issue/PR discussion, we've
> > also been thinking about having a more regular 'lab meeting' style
> > discussion that is scheduled at a fixed time.
> >
> > This would give a predictable time for everyone to participate, and
> > would play the same role as lab meetings in everyday research, but
> > taking into consideration the fact that we're an open, international
> > collaboration.
> >
> > Those lab meetings would be held with hangouts on-air, and thus open
> > for anyone who wants to watch and join, and kept on-record afterwards.
> >
> > The plan would be to hold them for ~60-90 minutes, to make regular
> > progress on design decisions that impact the project at large.
> > Impromptu hangouts as required by the everyday workflow will continue
> > to happen, and we'll do our best to also record those in public
> > format.
> >
> > If you like the idea, I'd like to propose Thursdays at 10am US Pacific
> > time, i.e. UTC-7 hours right now (PDT).  That's a good time for all
> > the folks here in California while still being reasonable in Europe.
> > I know we can't find a time that will work across all of Earth, but at
> > least that probably covers reasonably well our current core team and
> > lots of others.
> >
> > How does this sound to you all?  Would the time work for a reasonable
> > chunk of our active developers? Note that I am NOT asking only of the
> > 'core' github committers, but of anyone who is putting lots of time
> > into IPython work and is interested in joining these discussions.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > f
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