On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 11:24 AM Shaun McCance <shaunm at redhat.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have three sets of office hours that I'd like to gather feedback on. > > 1) CentOS Stream office hours are monthly on the second Wednesday, the > same day as board meetings, at 17:00 UTC. This is a video meeting on > meet.opensuse.org. It always has a few attendees. Sometimes productive > stuff happens. Sometimes it's just a social hour, and that's ok. We > should keep this one. I wouldn't mind a time shift or a shift in which > week, because I happen to have another monthly meeting that conflicts. > > 2) CentOS office hours are monthly on the very next day on Thursday, at > 10:00 UTC. This happens on IRC. Nobody attends, but we don't promote it > at all. The time slot is awful for the US. It's a great time slot to > bridge Europe and Asia. If we want to keep a time slot for Europe and > Asia, we need to find attendees from those time zones, because I'm not > awfully fond of waking up at 5am to look at a blank screen. > > 3) CentOS board office hours happen the week after the board meeting, > so third week, Wednesday at 15:00 UTC. This is a video meeting on a > Google Meet room I set up each month. The time slot is kind of early > for US Pacific (7am). The purpose of this one is to ask the board > questions about board stuff, so it's kind of important we have some > board folks there. > > I'm open to rescheduling, canceling, consolidating, changing venues, or > any level of bike shedding. Office hours can have value. They can also > be a waste of time. Let's make sure we have something that adds value > for our community. > I'm worried that they are making participation in the project harder. 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. 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. josh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20220215/c6773bd1/attachment-0002.html>