<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 11:24 AM Shaun McCance <<a href="mailto:shaunm@redhat.com">shaunm@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
We have three sets of office hours that I'd like to gather feedback on.<br>
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1) CentOS Stream office hours are monthly on the second Wednesday, the<br>
same day as board meetings, at 17:00 UTC. This is a video meeting on<br>
<a href="http://meet.opensuse.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">meet.opensuse.org</a>. It always has a few attendees. Sometimes productive<br>
stuff happens. Sometimes it's just a social hour, and that's ok. We<br>
should keep this one. I wouldn't mind a time shift or a shift in which<br>
week, because I happen to have another monthly meeting that conflicts.<br>
<br>
2) CentOS office hours are monthly on the very next day on Thursday, at<br>
10:00 UTC. This happens on IRC. Nobody attends, but we don't promote it<br>
at all. The time slot is awful for the US. It's a great time slot to<br>
bridge Europe and Asia. If we want to keep a time slot for Europe and<br>
Asia, we need to find attendees from those time zones, because I'm not<br>
awfully fond of waking up at 5am to look at a blank screen.<br>
<br>
3) CentOS board office hours happen the week after the board meeting,<br>
so third week, Wednesday at 15:00 UTC. This is a video meeting on a<br>
Google Meet room I set up each month. The time slot is kind of early<br>
for US Pacific (7am). The purpose of this one is to ask the board<br>
questions about board stuff, so it's kind of important we have some<br>
board folks there.<br>
<br>
I'm open to rescheduling, canceling, consolidating, changing venues, or<br>
any level of bike shedding. Office hours can have value. They can also<br>
be a waste of time. Let's make sure we have something that adds value<br>
for our community.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm worried that they are making participation in the project harder.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There's definitely value in high bandwidth conversation to work out something difficult or find a common understanding. However, the audience will always be very limited even if the call is open. I've distinctly noticed a lack of recap of these calls to a broader forum like the mailing list. That diminishes the value to the project as a whole.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If we're going to keep them, I really think someone needs to take the responsibility to summarize anything relevant to the broader CentOS community. Otherwise, we should move to one-off meetings as needed with the same requirement.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">josh</div></div>