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

Damián Avila damianavila at gmail.com
Sun May 19 11:45:36 EDT 2013


El 16/05/13 22:06, Fernando Perez escribió:
> 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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I think it is a great idea! I will try to participate in the meeting as 
much as I can.

Cheers.

Damián.





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