New ideas to grow the community

[Kiril Nesenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> To: "Kiril Nesenko" <kiril at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 11:25:41 AM
> Subject: Re: New ideas to grow the community
> 
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 04:00:29AM -0500, Kiril Nesenko wrote:
> > Hi team,
> > I have few ideas regarding the project, any feedback will be
> > appreciated !
> > 
> > ### IRC ###
> > 1. I think that we should create new channels on irc, #ovirt is not
> > enough.
> 
> Would you explain why it's time to fork #ovirt? I do not see TOO much
> traffic or confusion there.

I think that we need to prepare for the future and do things correctly.
I think that this will help the project to grow.

> 
> > We should add:
> > 
> > #ovirt-meeting - will be used for meetings only, need to add bot
> > that will log the meetings
> 
> meeting can generate a lot of temporary noise which can deter people
> from jumping in, so I would agree to create an ad-hoc channel for a
> meeting - but please update the main #ovirt topic to indicate where
> the
> meeting takes place.

Nobody told users that they must/should attend meetings. If they want - they will attend. 
Why not ovirt-meeting ? I like this name.
Sure we need to update the wiki with a new place

> 
> > #ovirt-devel - will be used for devel discussions only
> 
> Have users complained that there are to many technical discussions on
> #ovirt? I think that it's important to keep the devels near users
> until
> devels become a nuisance.

Each discussions should be done in the right place. 
Maybe devel channel is not relevant for now,
but still it will be nice to have it for a future.

> 
> > #ovirt - general
> > 
> > 2. Infra meetings should start with the following topic - New folks
> > introductions (this is a tmp subject)
> > In this topic we will let new folks to introduce themselves.
> > 
> > ### Ovirt website ###
> > 
> > 1. We should add link to the infra in -
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Community
> > It should be possible to navigate to http://www.ovirt.org/Infra
> > from http://www.ovirt.org/Community .
> > First thing someone that want to join the project will navigate to
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Community ,
> > so it is very important to add link there.
> > 
> > 2. Update -
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Becoming_an_Infrastructure_team_member
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