From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01CC1381F3 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:30:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57B06E09EA; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f45.google.com (mail-qa0-f45.google.com [209.85.216.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E22DE09B8 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id ci6so1795021qab.18 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=z3UMx6AxqULHH2cqJ/ZXflh+90ikXfxo/7CKzMms0oo=; b=P5TqgB4LvBj51rw4mQUAGvY20/xticPbza3rgMJbOKd8uvCiFFoWXgkcz9z2V7F4YC nPkNACMfMF9bbjtOItMMVeitkWZhEa+YukoyRxxj/lrjWlhEqUxoaZ4pzDf1TFZqVFOW ydt762KHB/kInTCm4NLmHywn8Q6/wG/dqe4gEdnjhgmyRbQQDz3PNmwRVTgC8nG1IWo7 hKmwbDMvGKrJbjOFsRqDcsQgJlGJvaNiY+LNNzZT4V9beaEwoY2d50Nxx1RrKVhiTWRA B7DdBp/xWSrrV9VyRdK9N5bfaduH8WUXpsCKaLwZI/yLaY3V/tYqRjCI70SI50f8lBuo Z5wA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.123.68 with SMTP id o4mr15550672qar.106.1372023037534; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: dastergon@gmail.com Received: by 10.49.63.232 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:30:37 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: jVJXkwYKqH-HWg-9pfSEOhoZqfs Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Hangouts From: Pavlos Ratis To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 6de83b6e-5bd6-48d4-ab3b-188398b3ddb8 X-Archives-Hash: 66a49b9c769d3b26247861386a40e5fb Hello all, Everyday we talk to each other about different kind of things related to Gentoo. IRC and MLs are the primary way of our communication, but this is only a text-based communication. I think sometimes it would be better to escape from that. That's why I'd like to propose Gentoo Hangouts. Gentoo Hangouts will be Google+ video Hangouts(video calls) held by teams or developers independent of a team. The main goal is to have the teams introduce themselves and discuss about different issues in their Gentoo-related projects. It's a very interactive way of communication and it helps team bonding. The first Hangout of a team would be good to include a short introduction of the team (what,who,where). Also team members will introduce themselves. Then team should start talking about how a user can contribute and what is going on in the team. Tips and tricks would be a plus and very useful to users. Finally, users will be able to ask questions at G+ and then team members will try to answer the most of these questions. Future team meetings could be also held via video hangouts or interviews like dabbot's doing in his personal blog. In addition, developers independent of the team could organize a hangout along with other developers to discuss different topics or to have a Gentoo-related chit-chat. Users could also participate into this video calls. It's very easy to decide the host of the talk. Maybe the team leads would be proper for that or someone from the PR. One of the major issues is the difference in timezone and the workload of each developer. However, I think it would be great to find 1 hour to participate. Teams could use a site like http://doodle.com to organize the Hangout and find an hour that fit to their schedule. Except from a camera and a microphone requirement is a Google account and www-client/google-talkplugin package which is already in the tree. It would be great to have teams introduce themselves and inform users in a more interactive way how to contribute and answer their questions. Finally as I said different other topics could be covered in this calls. All these video calls will be archived to a public Gentoo account in Youtube. I am looking forward to your feedback, your comments and of course for the first team that will create a video Hangout!! :) That's all folks, thanks for your time. Pavlos