New ideas to grow the community

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 04:42:23AM -0500, Kiril Nesenko wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- 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.

I don't mind the name - I just want the topic of #ovirt to remind me
where have everybody's gone to.

> 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.

I think that spinning off #ovirt-devel is not "a thing done correctly".
We may have to do it in the future, if users are tired of technical java
discussions. Until this happens, we need to keep the guys who knows the
most about the code near the guys who needs their support, in one happy
channel.

> 
> > 
> > > #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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