Call for Agenda Items -- oVirt Weekly Meeting 2012-09-19

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 09/18/2012 02:35 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given that this week is Rosh Hashana and next week is Yom Kippur, 
> traditionally 2 weeks holiday in Israel, does it make sense to 
> maintain the weekly call? I'd suggest cancelling this week and next 
> week's meetings, and having a "drive to 3.2" meeting in 2 weeks time.
>
> What do you think, Mike?
As "the casual observer who used to be in these meetings more often" -- 
I know that it was mentioned last week that there would be a number of 
folks out through mid-october; holidays off in Israel extend past Yom 
Kippur. I'm not sure how large that group is, but that would actually be 
more like 3+ weeks; Sukkot ends on October 8th.  That's a fairly good 
stretch of time with (hopefully) other activities in the works that need 
updating.

Results usually vary, but it might be worth trying to have meetings; 
there are other activities which don't necessarily require the presence 
of the folks in Israel.  I've found that using holiday-ish times is 
usually good for things like brainstorming, finding easy fix-it items, 
etc; "top 5 wiki pages that need love," analyzing data/statistics on 
downloads from a new release.  I'd be happy to pop in one of the weeks 
and talk a bit about release manager stuff from a features/schedule/etc. 
perspective, and I know Leslie has ongoing things with events -- maybe 
looking at collateral/flyers/handouts, new swag ideas, marketing stuff 
might be fun. Or there's always try out oVirt in the Fedora 18 Alpha 
release, or plan a test day around it :D... oh, wait, I might be biased 
there :D

These things are always difficult; it's less exciting to have not as 
many folks in the meeting, and sometimes not incredibly productive, but 
I always feel like I'm somehow discouraging/disenfranchising people in 
other regions when cancelling meetings because of local holidays.  I 
usually try to just keep the pulse going and try and bring in other 
folks to do some fun stuff that may be more enticing than usual :)

Of course, all IMO - not trying to throw myself under the bus for 
anything here (except the release manager notes/observances).  Those 
intending to show up get to make the decision! :)

-robyn

>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
>
> On 09/17/2012 01:59 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
>> Meeting Time and Place
>> oVirt Weekly Sync
>>        * Wednesdays @ 15:00 UTC (may change during DST changes) - always
>> at 7:00am US Pacific, 10:00am US Eastern.
>>                * To see in your timezone date -d 'WEDNESDAY 1000 EDT'
>>                * On IRC: #ovirt on irc.oftc.net
>>
>> This is the agenda for the 2012-09-19 meeting:
>>
>>          * Status of Next Release (Release Criteria, Target GA date)
>>          * Sub-project reports (engine, vdsm, node, infra)
>>          * Workshops
>>
>> If you have other topics, please reply to me and I will add them to the
>> agenda.  If you propose a topic, please be prepared to lead the
>> discussion during the meeting.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike
>>
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