[Starlingx-discuss] [config][distcloud][flock services] Areas to improve team communication and visibility

Mon Jan 27 09:48:11 UTC 2020

You can also try alternating time slots. Not ideal, but helps sharing the burden caused by time zones.

Or utilize IRC more for communication including meetings.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Ildikó

> On Jan 24, 2020, at 19:10, Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> I feel your pain, Dariush.  There are very few (if any) open alternatives.  Perhaps we should consider consolidating our meetings more aggressively or shortening more of the 60 minute calls to 30 minutes so we can fit more calls into those slots.
> 
>       brucej
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eslimi, Dariush [mailto:Dariush.Eslimi at windriver.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 10:00 AM
> To: Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones at intel.com>; Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko.vancsa at gmail.com>
> Cc: starlingx <starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
> Subject: RE: [Starlingx-discuss] [config][distcloud][flock services] Areas to improve team communication and visibility
> 
> This is the earliest available slot on Monday, others days of the week also are pretty full. 
> Unless if we want to break the Meeting Free Fridays?
> 
> Please take a look here : https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Starlingx/Meetings
> What would you suggest?
> 
> Dariush
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jones, Bruce E [mailto:bruce.e.jones at intel.com] 
> Sent: January-24-20 11:21 AM
> To: Eslimi, Dariush <Dariush.Eslimi at windriver.com>; Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko.vancsa at gmail.com>
> Cc: starlingx <starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
> Subject: RE: [Starlingx-discuss] [config][distcloud][flock services] Areas to improve team communication and visibility
> 
> 8AM Pacific is Midnight in Shanghai, which makes it very hard for our team there to join.
> 
>      brucej
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eslimi, Dariush [mailto:Dariush.Eslimi at windriver.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:35 AM
> To: Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko.vancsa at gmail.com>
> Cc: starlingx <starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
> Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] [config][distcloud][flock services] Areas to improve team communication and visibility
> 
> Community,
> 
> I have checked the TL calendars and my own and I am proposing to have the meeting for 3 projects at Monday 8AM Pacific (11 Eastern), bi-weekly.
> Is there any objection to this time window?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dariush
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ildiko Vancsa [mailto:ildiko.vancsa at gmail.com] 
> Sent: January-23-20 9:59 AM
> To: Eslimi, Dariush <Dariush.Eslimi at windriver.com>
> Cc: starlingx <starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
> Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] [config][distcloud][flock services] Areas to improve team communication and visibility
> 
> Hi Dariush,
> 
> Thank you for the quick response.
> 
> Please let me know when the teams identified their meeting slot preferences to make sure there is no collision to use the Zoom account.
> 
> Let me know if I can help with anything else.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ildikó
> 
> 
>> On Jan 23, 2020, at 15:40, Eslimi, Dariush <Dariush.Eslimi at windriver.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Ildiko,
>> 
>> Your observation is accurate, this is my fault and i will send you an email by end of the day Friday to setup a team meeting.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dariush
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ildiko Vancsa [mailto:ildiko.vancsa at gmail.com] 
>> Sent: January-23-20 9:36 AM
>> To: starlingx <starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
>> Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] [config][distcloud][flock services] Areas to improve team communication and visibility
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As we have been looking into ways to help new contributors to participate in the community I was checking the meeting calendar[1] and some information available about project teams.
>> 
>> I came across three projects where I didn’t see any meetings on the calendar:
>> * Config (Configuration)
>> * Distcloud (Distributed Cloud)
>> * Flock-Services (StarlingX Flock Services)
>> 
>> By looking at the projects' wiki pages[2][3][4] I couldn’t find much information about where the teams are discussing work items and activities during the release cycles. With following IRC and the mailing list in my experience it’s also hard to spot team activities.
>> 
>> Visible and open communication is very important in terms of the Four Opens[5] that are the guiding principles of the OpenStack Foundation and the projects it supports. The current state also makes it complicated for newcomers to join and chime in to participate so they could eventually become part of the team.
>> 
>> I would be happy to help making improvements, like setting up meetings, discuss tagging mails on the mailing list, etc.
>> 
>> According to my knowledge these projects are all active. Is that an accurate observation?
>> 
>> Do the above teams plan to setup weekly meetings or other ways to make the team communication more visible? Is there anything that I may have missed on the topic?
>> 
>> Thanks and Best Regards,
>> Ildikó
>> 
>> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Starlingx/Meetings
>> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Config
>> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/DistCloud
>> [4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/FlockServices
>> [5] https://www.osf.dev/about/four-opens/
>> 
>> 
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