On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Stefan Beller [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 9:31 AM Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
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For the past several years, we've held a Git Contributor Summit as part
of the Git Merge conference. I'd like to get opinions from the community
to help plan future installments. Any feedback or opinion is welcome,
but some obvious things to think about:
- where, when, and how often?
Plans are shaping up to have Git Merge 2019 in Brussels right after
FOSDEM in February (like it was two years ago), with a contributor
summit attached.
Are there people who would be more likely to attend a contributor
summit if it were held elsewhere (e.g., in North America, probably
in the Bay Area)? Are people interested in attending a separate
contributor summit not attached to the larger Git Merge (and if so,
is there any other event it might be worth connecting it with,
time-wise)? Are people interested in going to two summits in a year
(e.g., Brussels in February, and then maybe some in North America
later in the year), or is that diminishing returns?
We have been kicking around the thought of reviving the GitTogethers
like back in the olden days (I only know them from hearsay), in
Mountain View or Sunnyvale at the Google Campus, but we have not yet
spent enough thought to make it so.
I think it would be great to have GitTogethers again around the time
of the GSoC Mentor Summit like we did a long time ago!
I think twice a year is fine for the community and has not reached the
point of diminishing returns.
I agree.
As most contributors are from North America (estimated), I would not
mind a conference somewhere here.
Yeah, it looks like the Git Merge is most of the time in Europe, so it
would be nice to have something in North America too.
I'd be looking forward to Brussels next February!
Looking forward to it too! I think it is a great idea to have it
around the time of the FOSDEM.
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- format
For those who haven't attended before, it's basically 25-ish Git
(and associated project) developers sitting in a room for a day
chatting about the project. Topics go on a whiteboard in the
morning, and then we discuss each for 30-60 minutes.
We could do multiple days (which might give more room for actually
working collaboratively instead of just discussing). We could do
something more formal (like actual talks). We could do something
less formal (like an all-day spaghetti buffet, where conversation
happens only between mouthfuls). The sky is the limit. Some of those
ideas may be better than others.
If we have GitTogethers again, I think it would be nice indeed if we
could do 2 days. For example maybe one day unconference and one day
working collaboratively or discussing in smaller groups. 2 days
instead of 1 would make it more valuable for developers based in
Europe (and maybe in North America and elsewhere) to come.
Personally I think the way is fine; we could collect topics in advance on
the list to have a head start, but the whiteboard is totally fine, IMHO.
Yeah for the GitTogethers we used to collect topics in advance, but we
still had a whiteboard and voted on them at the beginning of the
actual GitTogether.
Thanks for starting this discussion.