[Geotools-devel] Rebooting the "IRC" meetings?

[Andrea A. <and...@ge...>]

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

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