| | 1 | = Planning the Next Meeting |
| | 2 | * The plan is March 2019, we do not want to go for a two year cadence and it is not clear whether there will be enough demand for attendance if the frequency is increased even further |
| | 3 | * g5pw@ will organize at Mittelab in Trieste, Italy |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | = Feedback from this Edition |
| | 6 | == What went well? |
| | 7 | * Great organization, thanks Mojca & Aljaž. +1 |
| | 8 | * Location allowed lots of collaboration, that's great. |
| | 9 | * The location also forced people to be together in the evening, which is much nicer than distributing to different hotels at the end of the evening. |
| | 10 | * More achievements this year due to lots of hacking sessions. Getting things done is great! +3 |
| | 11 | * Ticket closing is nice! |
| | 12 | * Timelimits for discussions helped with that. |
| | 13 | * Documenting hacking results is very helpful and gives a sense of accomplishment. |
| | 14 | * Taking notes worked much better than last time. It's nice that the notes don't rot on some etherpad™ forever but are actually pushed to the wiki right away. +3 |
| | 15 | * Non-hacking event was very nice. We should always have an afternoon for a non-IT group activity. +2 |
| | 16 | * Nice improvements to the PR bot. |
| | 17 | * Infrastructure topics are also interesting for others, not only "established" MacPorts base and infra committers. |
| | 18 | * Getting away from your regular duties it great to only work on MacPorts and tackle larger topics that require uninterrupted time. |
| | 19 | * Arriving on Friday evening and starting on Saturday is great. |
| | 20 | * Friday - Wednesday is good. |
| | 21 | * The last meeting was a motivation boost, and this one is no different! |
| | 22 | * Getting GSoC students to the meeting helps with retention. +1 |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | == What could be better? |
| | 25 | * Have a more detailed plan before the meeting – this allow others to see what we are doing and enable more remote participation. +1 |
| | 26 | * Unfortunately, discussing what to discuss is hard. People jump into the topics right away, rather than acknowledging that we need discussion on a certain issue. |
| | 27 | * We did actually quite well with our local planning and time slots, but we should have wikified the whiteboard. |
| | 28 | * We might try having a voice/video meeting before to decide on interesting topics earlier. |
| | 29 | * We must do meetings every year, otherwise we always use "last year" even though we didn't even have a meeting. +99 |
| | 30 | * The long hacking sessions were very productive, but not very social. |
| | 31 | * This may be related to the location where we had dinner right next to our hacking area. |
| | 32 | * The afternoon non-IT group activity is a nice balance to that. |
| | 33 | * Don't get a location with construction outside that will cut your upstream. |
| | 34 | * 4G is great, and actually sufficient for a group of 8 hackers. |
| | 35 | * Last time we tried to continue meeting via video/audio calls, but the idea didn't take off after the meeting. |
| | 36 | * Should we try again this time? |
| | 37 | * If so, don't ask whether to do it, just announce a date & time and do it |
| | 38 | * Topics should be clear before the call – just pick a couple of topics and take feedback at the end for new topics for the next meeting. |
| | 39 | * Mojca will schedule a meeting for April 21st 13:00 UTC for 1h. We should discuss two topics, 30 minutes each. She will just pick two topics as an initial meeting. |
| | 40 | * We should do the same with GSoC – just invite for a call to discuss our proposals. |
| | 41 | * Some of the targets were not achieved |
| | 42 | * For example, we did not finish the migration branch – however, this was probably due to us underestimating the work that was needed. |
| | 43 | * Bring Club Mate! |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | == Experiences and Testimonials |
| | 47 | * It's nice to meet everybody in person! +1 |
| | 48 | * Come to Helsinki, it's great! |
| | 49 | * Play Papers, Please! |
| | 50 | * Cooking is great! |
| | 51 | * Indian food is great! |
| | 52 | * "Fortunately, we had bad weather" ~g5pw |
| | 53 | * The open air event needs to include lots of stair climbing. |
