blobwave Hey team, As part of our pledge to improve the Maintainer Experience, we would love to announce weekly collaborative agenda driven maintainer/community sessions. Pact Community Meeting Each Wednesday at 12:00 UK/21:00 AEST time we will hold a community meeting via a huddle in the #C05HCLA3C93 channel. Please see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v_QWyYEl7rxR5hV0EQAcTFjBbiq5_uzn7_WMMYILRac/edit?usp=sharing for an openly editable agenda where anyone can table ideas for discussion. We are aware the timezones will be particularly challenging as we are globally distributed and have a-lot of other commitments. Open to ideas, suggestions, alternate times etc. We are taking some of the lessons and techniques learnt from @Jo Laing’s time working with the Cucumber community. You can see Cucumbers open agenda here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NbJDkGs4IgDUHDSA8W6WollVL0rnHDCMUxGPrzPPyiI/edit?usp=sharing

📅 If anyone would like a calendar invitation please let me know your email address or DM me if you'd prefer, thanks.

Thanks - looking forward to this! I’ll add some thoughts for an agenda later today

Happy to move times, and run additional sessions at alternate times to try and make it available to everyone as possible Slack automation/reminder sounds like a smart idea.

This is a good idea, but I think something async might work better. I’m travelling for a month, so I won’t be around much at the moment I also can’t make Wednesday evening for any dates this year

This is a good idea, but I think something async might work better.

I would hope that this isn’t to replace async communication, but rather to allow contributors/maintainers a time to gather if they want. the agenda is openly editable and we can discuss anytime :)

I’m travelling for a month, so I won’t be around much at the moment

I also can’t make Wednesday evening for any dates this year

ooh where are you travelling to? Thanks for letting us know, I’ve added an agenda note around maintainer avail and time zone preference.

Pretty much all Pact collaboration so far has been async, if it wasn’t in person (or the conference we ran)

I don’t think that will ever change due to the nature of the beast. Pretty much 95% of my work has been async apart from a few video calls with maintainers

This is why we’re having them in person Tim - to try something different! You might recall this was an action from the strategy sessions. I think it’s worth trying them out for a few months to see what works/doesn’t work. I certainly appreciate TZ issues (I’m finding I lack energy at night where previously I was in the zone) so we’ll have to iterate and explore this area. I don’t think we should make this a decision making point, at least not in lieu of a “quorum” or other discussions as necessary, but if we can record and share the agenda and outcomes, it should still function well for async collaboration with an additional benefit of socialisation amongst not just maintainers, but the contributors and general community.