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([2001:4898:8010:0:ca8d:f8c9:3f38:e60]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r1-v6sm7838016qkl.85.2018.08.13.09.58.54 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Contributor Summit planning To: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org References: <20180813163108.GA6731@sigill.intra.peff.net> From: Derrick Stolee Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:58:54 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180813163108.GA6731@sigill.intra.peff.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 8/13/2018 12:31 PM, Jeff King wrote: > For the past several years, we've held a Git Contributor Summit as part > of the Git Merge conference. I'd like to get opinions from the community > to help plan future installments. Any feedback or opinion is welcome, > but some obvious things to think about: > > - where, when, and how often? > > Plans are shaping up to have Git Merge 2019 in Brussels right after > FOSDEM in February (like it was two years ago), with a contributor > summit attached. > > Are there people who would be more likely to attend a contributor > summit if it were held elsewhere (e.g., in North America, probably > in the Bay Area)? Are people interested in attending a separate > contributor summit not attached to the larger Git Merge (and if so, > is there any other event it might be worth connecting it with, > time-wise)? Are people interested in going to two summits in a year > (e.g., Brussels in February, and then maybe some in North America > later in the year), or is that diminishing returns? I've only been to one contributor summit, but found it extremely useful in meeting community members face-to-face. I think the time spent was very productive. I would be up for two meetings a year. I would expect that the variety of locations would allow a larger set of contributors to make at least one meeting a year. This may come at a cost of a smaller group in each summit. > > - format > > For those who haven't attended before, it's basically 25-ish Git > (and associated project) developers sitting in a room for a day > chatting about the project. Topics go on a whiteboard in the > morning, and then we discuss each for 30-60 minutes. > > We could do multiple days (which might give more room for actually > working collaboratively instead of just discussing). We could do > something more formal (like actual talks). We could do something > less formal (like an all-day spaghetti buffet, where conversation > happens only between mouthfuls). The sky is the limit. Some of those > ideas may be better than others. The one thing I found missing that could be good is to have a remote option. Not everyone can travel or can afford to do so. I wonder if a simple Google Hangout could allow more participation from the community, even in a passive sense (those still at their day jobs listening in). It could even facilitate remote presenters, if applicable. > I hope this can stimulate a discussion on the list, but of course if > anybody has private feedback about past events or future planning, feel > free to email me off-list. Thanks for starting the discussion early! -Stolee