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From: Andrea A. <and...@ge...> - 2012-05-01 13:20:07
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Hi, talking with Chris last week we were discussing the general lack of coordination that has been affecting both GeoTools and GeoServer in the last year or so. It would be nice to try and open a bit communications channels with a means that gives more opportunity for people to talk about what they are doing, priorities expectations and needs. At the same time I believe we need to avoid getting bogged down into something that would make people disregard the meetings because they are using too much time. I've sent the mail to both geotools and geoserver ml because I'm thiking of doing a shared one between the two projects. This is a quick braindump of how it may look like (mostly to promote discussion on the topic): - voice meeting, to keep things short and get maximum bandwidth (skype, gtalk? with a chat fallback for needs such a sharing links, pasting text, raising hand to talk next in case the discussion gets "busy" with lots of people willing to say something - ideally time boxed to half an hour with the ability to expand on a as need basis - a meeting every two weeks - topics to be discussed scheduled in advance (with a default "what's up one"), with people signing up on the topics that they are interested to discuss (so that we can cover first the ones that most people are interested in, and keep for later the ones with a smaller audience, allowing people to leave earlier if they need to) - terse textual log only showing the topics discussed and the decision taken, to be edited collaboratively on something like etherpad (which is gone, but there is plenty of replacements around, including, if we want too, Google Docs) - a meeting that discusses both GeoTools and GeoServer, in that order. Actually, it can be something like "GeoTools tribes" meeting, with a first part where everybody is on board, and a second one where people split up and discuss separately, if they want to, uDig, GeoServer and whatever else they want - participation from PSC members somehow expected, other people can join at will If people from all time zones are interested we'll have to actually setup two meetings and do some follow up by mail, leveraging the logs: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20120601&p1=215&p2=179&p3=256&p4=196&p5=240 Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- |