Contribution Events Initiative meeting / 22 November 2022 5am UTC (#3311971) · Issues · project / contribution_events

Contribution Events Initiative meeting / 22 November 2022 5am UTC

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [kristen pol](https://www.drupal.org/user/8389) >>> <p>Meeting will happen in <code>#contribution-events</code> on <code>drupal.slack.com</code>.</p> <pre>Hello and welcome to this asynchronous, biweekly Slack meeting for the Contribution Events Initiative! :wave:<br><br>This meeting:<br>➤ Is for Drupal community members interested in how to better organize, promote, and improve contribution events. We discuss upcoming events, lessons learned from past events, ideas for increasing event participation, how to improve documentation, and more.<br>➤ Happens every two weeks in alternating timezones: 5pm UTC Mondays and 5am UTC Tuesdays.<br>➤ Is done over chat.<br>➤ Is actively facilitated for 1 hour, but is open asynchronously for 24 hours from the meeting start time.<br>➤ Happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously!<br>➤ Transcript will be exported and posted to a project issue for this meeting. For anonymous comments, start with a :bust_in_silhouette: emoji. To take a comment or thread off the record, start with a :no_entry_sign: emoji.<br><br>This meeting is run alternately by @Kristen Pol (she/her) and @surabhi.gokte. This week I am facilitating.<br><br>:zero: Who is here today? Comment in the thread to introduce yourself and let us know [insert social question, e.g. if you have any interesting plans for the weekend, what is a recent book/movie/series you enjoyed, what is a new song you like, have any fun vacation plans].<br>:one: Do you have suggested topics you are looking to discuss? Post in this thread and we’ll open separate threads for them as appropriate. Please use the additional threads for discussion.<br>:two: Space to call out any recent contribution wins and special Drupal thanks for people in contribution land.<br>:three: Are there any contribution events coming up that you know about? Regular events?<br>:four: Did you participate in a contribution event recently? Feedback?<br>:five: Are you looking for a contribution event to help as an organizer, mentor, or participant? Or are you an event organizer that doesn't have contribution activities yet and would like help?<br>:six: Do you have any resources or documentation suggestions? Do you have suggestions for where to look for existing documentation (even outside of Drupal)?<br><br>[add additional topic threads here]<br><br>:last: That's all folks, thank you for attending! :blue_heart: This meeting is officially open for the next 23 hours, so please continue the conversation in the threads above. We also welcome feedback on the meeting structure and agenda via this thread, Slack, or issue queue!</pre><ul> <li>For #1, don't copy/paste the topics exactly unless they are clear and short enough. Otherwise, summarize the information so it's easy to understand. Then start each of those topic threads with the first item acknowledging the person who suggested the topic, e.g. <code>[@ name] raised this</code>. Or you can put in the thread message if preferred.<br>   </li> <li>For #3, add this for first item in the thread: <p>In addition to adding events here, use this issue to add new events and encourage organizers to add these to the Community Events list as well: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3281974">https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3281974</a></p> </li> <li>For #4, add this for first item in the thread: <p>In addition to adding feedback here, use this issue or create a child issue to add any contribution event feedback:<br> <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3282885">https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3282885</a></p> </li> <li>For #5, add this for first item in the thread: <p>In addition to adding your interest here, use this page to signify your willingness to help at contribution events: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/contribution-events-initiative/contribution-events-organizers-and-mentors">https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/contribution-events-initiative/contribution-events-organizers-and-mentors</a></p> </li> <li>For #6, add these for first items in the thread: <p>In addition to adding your resources here, use this issue to note any resources and documentation that might be helpful for contribution events or places we could look (even outside of Drupal): <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3280005">https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3280005</a></p> </li> <li>After #6, review the <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/contribution_events">open project issues</a> to see if there are any topics that should be added for this particular meeting and open numbered threads as appropriate. </li> </ul> <h2>0️⃣ Who is here today? Comment in the thread to introduce yourself and let us know...Icebreaker question: For those in the US, what Thanksgiving food are you looking forward too. For those outside the US, do you have a holiday with a favorite food you really enjoy?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Kristen, California, hard to pick one favorite Thanksgiving food but "stuffing" is a favorite... and, in recent years, my sister-in-law makes a killer cheesecake (either plain or lemon or chocolate and all are great!)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>Alexey, Armenia (relocated from Russia). Unfortunately we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but for us the New Year is the main holiday of a year! And the most classic food for it is Olivier salad, the large bucket of Olivier salad :smile:So, brace yourself - the New Year is coming 🙂 (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>VinmayiSwamy</td> <td>Vinmayi, India :wave:I love all the sweet foods my mom makes for Diwali. Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated every autumn over a five day period. There is a big focus on sweet foods on this day.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Fathima Asmat</td> <td>Fathima here from London :wave:When it comes to events/festivals, Biriyani has been my all time favourite - the aroma, spices and the flavour, nothing can beat to it :star-struck: The best holidays I have ever had with great food are from Morocco and Turkey - variety of cuisines with many cultures, highly recommend it :relaxed:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>Gab, from Milan (Italy).Well… :it: :meat_on_bone: :stuck_out_tongue: Every holiday has got delicious food here. But personally the one I love slightly the most is in about 20 days, the 13th of December, St. Lucia. In Sicily (the region I’m from) we are allowed to eat only arancine!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nico Grienauer (he/him)</td> <td>Nico, Vienna Austria (Grienauer on d.o)Drupal AT Association Board Member, DrupalDevDays Vienna Organisator (19-22 July 2023), Splashaward DE/AT Co-Organisator, EOGW Board Advisor,…In Austria we have times where Farmers can sell whine/cold food cheaper… then there are often also special sweets/cake sold, which are kind of Donut-dough and Sugar. they taste wonderful.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1️⃣ Do you have suggested topics you are looking to discuss? Post in this thread and we’ll open separate threads for them as appropriate. Please use the additional threads for discussion.</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>I'll start a thread for feedback on 3rd Drupal 10 Global Porting Day!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Considering we've effectively decoupled the collective from this initiative (in terms of the responsibility of running it), the only thing I'd recommend is continuing to explore consolidating this with EOWG (especially as it seems like there's interest from folks in both groups).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>2023 Global Contribution Week event, hosted by Community Events / Contribution Events.(I’ll open the thread)</td> </tr> </table> <h2>2️⃣ Space to call out any recent contribution wins and special Drupal thanks for people in contribution land.</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Big thanks to the organizers and mentors for the 3rd Drupal 10 Global Porting Day!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>@liberatr (he/him) joining <a href="https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution">https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution</a> was a big win :metal: Hoping that will lead to a cross section of folks interested/active in Drupal contribution areas (including Events) wanting to do the same :raised_hands:</td> </tr> </table> <h2>3️⃣ Are there any contribution events coming up that you know about? Regular events?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>In addition to adding events here, use this issue to add new events and encourage organizers to add these to the Community Events list as well: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3281974" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3281974</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Not really a "contribution event" but the Drupal 10 launch parties should be fun <a href="https://www.drupal10party.com/">https://www.drupal10party.com/</a></td> </tr> </table> <h2>4️⃣ Did you participate in a contribution event recently? Feedback?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>In addition to adding feedback here, use this issue or create a child issue to add any contribution event feedback:<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3282885" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3282885</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>We have a separate thread for the porting event <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1669093599582189">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1669093599582189</a></td> </tr> </table> <h2>5️⃣ Are you looking for a contribution event to help as an organizer, mentor, or participant? Or are you an event organizer that doesn't have contribution activities yet and would like help?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>In addition to adding your interest here, use this page to signify your willingness to help at contribution events: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/contribution-events-initiative/contribution-events-organizers-and-mentors">https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/contribution-events-initiative/contribution-events-organizers-and-mentors</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Quite possibly assuming the Drupal Contribution team can help solidify and sign off on the direction/needs of the collective.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nico Grienauer (he/him)</td> <td>still long time to go, but we deeply in planning DDD 2023 in Vienna.Who/how to plan the contribution which will be 4 days during the event?We put the Developers/Contributors at the rooftop of the event location btw 🙂 so there will be an awesome view around Vienna for contributors.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nico Grienauer (he/him)</td> <td>who should we involve in planning/communications? Would be great to have one person, who can coordinate that part 🙂</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>@Nico Grienauer (he/him) That sounds amazing! p.s. love you are using the Drupal Cares image my son created :heart_eyes:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>@gusaus I think I put all my feedback into that doc</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>@Kristen Pol (she/her) Totally unexpected/positive progress considering I didn't even realize there was a meeting (actually glad I had my phone nearby after shutting down the computer last night) :raised_hands:If anything you may have spent too much time on the doc (first step is/was to just get all the organizers on the same page and sign off on the general direction). Now that we've accomplished that, I'll try to spend some time following up in the doc... and keeping convo there so it'll be easy for everybody to track and provide input without getting lost in Slack :sweat_smile:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>No worries... I prefer to be thorough if I'm going to "finish" a task... I have a bit of OCD</td> </tr> </table> <h2>6️⃣ Do you have any resources or documentation suggestions? Do you have suggestions for where to look for existing documentation (even outside of Drupal)?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>In addition to adding your resources here, use this issue to note any resources and documentation that might be helpful for contribution events or places we could look (even outside of Drupal): <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3280005" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3280005</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>YES! See agenda item 5 📣</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>I think we need a more clear description "what to do" for new participants. Many people come to participate, but see almost silent chat in Slack or tough questions.  Will be good to create some interactive landing page, where participants can easily find a most suitable issue for them and starts working. Maybe even with a magic button "Give me a random issue to work" 🙂</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>The <a href="https://contribkanban.com/board/Drupal10portingday">https://contribkanban.com/board/Drupal10portingday</a> is a good start, but it very misses the module names, and looks too technical (without any explanations). Will be good to implement something the same, but more user friendly, like this:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>image.png</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>And another idea: maybe create a bot, that will track the activity with related issues in the Slack channel? Something like:"Adminimal Admin Toolbar: Automated Drupal 10 compatibility fixes"  is reviewed and tested by Alice Cooper, thanks!(edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>I love these ideas! The random issue button is something that #bugsmash does. I had hoped to refresh the docs before the even but sadly ran out of time :disappointed:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Not sure about creating the Slack bot... might be hard? But the others are more documentation-related or similar to things that have been done before so those seem more manageable, I think</td> </tr> </table> <h2>7️⃣ Feedback on the 3rd Drupal 10 Global Porting Day!</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Stats are in this #d10readiness thread <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C014CT1CN1M/p1669058534124999">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C014CT1CN1M/p1669058534124999</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Although not many people asked questions, there were several maintainers who were busy cranking things out</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>Somehow a lot of TOP 50 and TOP 100 modules got a D10 compatible version. Although this happened across the entire week - and not just the porting day - I like to think our event glue somehow all together :smile:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>Sad note: I still believe trying to explain the event as “on your timezone this will look like” confuses only.it does confuse organizers, mentors and participants, and adds headache to forms, landing pages, etc.Next time let’s just call on what day(s) we run the event. Every person will adjust it to their timezone.We just need to make sure there are enough mentors spread across the globe, i.e. one for each macro-region.The rest will auto adjust.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>FeyP</td> <td>It would be interesting to get some more stats not only from the dashboard, but also maybe via tagged issues, so that we could maybe get more insight into what kind of issues were specifically being worked on as part of the event. Many maintainers might have waited for rc1 to work on compatibility or to do a final test before tagging a release. So the activity there might also be unrelated to the event and might have happened that week anyway.Just monitoring the channel, my impression was there were more people working on Friday than on Saturday and there weren't hardly any questions compared to the earlier event, where you could see a lot of new people join the channel and asking questions about setup and stuff. I wonder if this is maybe because a lot of people already had enough experience this time or because the "be prepared" was emphasized more so there weren't a lot of questions or whether this was because we didn't have so many participants this time. My personal impression was that we didn't as good a job promoting this event as we did last time. If that is indeed true and participation by new contributors or even general participation was lower, then maybe this might be the reason for it?Still, it looks like there was some sizable work done, so the event was a success. Every issue counts, right? W/r/t extending to multiple days and to the weekend, while my personal impression was that there was more work done during the week, I think that we were able to get sufficient mentoring coverage for most of the weekend, so I think this is something that could be done again at future events. As long as we have good coverage through mentors, additional days don't hurt, even if they might not be as popular with participants. Again, every issue counts.Regarding documentation, I think this could still be improved (afaik the setup guide is still "needs work"), but comparing it to the first event where there were a lot of last minute changes and additions to the point that it was sometimes a bit confusing, I think we did a good job of organizing this better with the guide and consolidating it a bit. If we maybe decide to do another event shortly after release by any chance (maybe in January or February?) to get "the last mile" over the line, I guess we're looking at a solid base there for future events.I don't remember where I've read this, but I liked the idea of having some kind of start page to make it easier for people to select tasks and issues, maybe something like in the community section where you can select a skill you have and get some hints about possible starting points for contribution. But I guess that would be some work, especially if you want this to be a general thing for other type of virtual contribution events. Not sure that we have the resources. Maybe we could look at something like this again for D10 to D11...W/r/t time zones, I agree that this was causing some confusion. I like the idea of mentors signing up in their time zone to make it easier for them to register and prevent conversion errors. For the presentation on the event page, I think it would be better to just use UTC and ask people to use an online tool to convert it to their time zone. Providing info for the most common time zones like it was done this time will make it easier for participants, which is good, but I don't think it is a good idea to just list each mentor with their selected time zone. As a participant it shouldn't matter if I'm mentored by a person from my time zone as long as there is a mentor I can approach to ask questions. So I'd suggest we either convert each registration to all displayed time zones or we just stick to UTC (I guess most people know how far off their time zone is from UTC) and link to an online tool for conversion as was done this time, which we should probably do anyway since we can't list every single time zone. (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>@Alexey Murz Korepov has some great suggestions in this thread <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1669093336201609">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1669093336201609</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Fantastic feedback @gambry and @FeyP! and @Alexey Murz Korepov in the other thread :heart_eyes:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>I know that having a porting day spurs maintainers to do work prior to porting day (or during)... I've been told that... this is either to keep the noise down in their queue or just because the porting day is a reminder/deadline so they want to finish itThe timezone thing was quite a fiasco, yes... especially with the multiple days. I like @gambry's idea that we pick dates and then the event is, for example, 8am to 8pm in each person's personal time zone and we just try to find mentors to cover their own time zone and we just explain who's working in each time zone at what timeI hope to gather more stats this week but I am burning super hot on my contribution hours because of the event and other things so I really should wait until December before I look at this. This is something I did for the July and August events but it takes a few hours to review.I'm not sure it was less promoted than before. There certainly were lots of tweets about it. It was mentioned in Talking Drupal podcast, Acquia webinar, EOWG newsletter... I think the missing bit from the first event was no Planet Drupal posts (though I didn't check these). Maybe we should also make sure there is at least one Planet Drupal blog post that goes out per event, even if it's very light, since there are a lot of people that see these.I do think that there were less questions from those who did participate because they had participated before. But, I get the impression there were less participants than the previous events... without looking at the issues, though, this is just a gut feeling for now. The docs do still need more love (see other thread). I just didn't have the hours/time to do this unfortunately.Definitely creating a start page would be great (see @Alexey Murz Korepov's suggestion in the other thread)As for listing time zones for mentors as UTC and providing the converter link, we could do that, but if we are going to switch to focusing on finding mentors to cover their own time zones, then it seems like we should put their own time zone... or we can put both UTC and their personal time zone since that would handle both? We do have to pick one time zone for the overall event page which would be UTC... unless we were to create separate event pages for each time zone there is mentor coverage but I think that would be very confusingI think I responded to all the feedback above but let me know if I missed anything. Thanks!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>One note of possible quietness in the US timezones is this week is Thanksgiving so some people probably would have been preparing for taking the week off... though, in reality, the US was pretty quiet for all porting events for some reason. Seems like the most activity at previous events was from Europe and India and Australia</td> </tr> <tr> <td>FeyP</td> <td>Yeah, all of this was really based on my personal observations and gut feelings, so I could be wrong. Looks like I was wrong on the promotion thing. By no means did I want to imply that you would have to gather these stats. I think anyone could do that, really. Also, I don't think this is time critical. If we manage to get some numbers at the beginning of next year, that would still be great. If not, it's fine as well.The timezone thingIf we manage to get enough mentors to cover all these slots in each major time zone we're targeting, I think this will work.But let's take the past event as an example: I'm in CET and want to participate. Let's say I have a day job and little kids, so I decide that Saturday 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. would be a good time. My kids are still asleep then and I can actually get some work done before they wake up and want me to play with them for the rest of the day. But I'm new to this so I'll need some guidance. I take a look at the schedule on the event page and there is no mentor listed for that time slot in my time zone. This time slot is actually well covered by two mentors from India. I just don't see that easily unless I convert all the other time slots listed to CET. Conclusion: I can't participate.So I think we should either list all times in UTC and ask participants to convert themselves or list all covered time slots in all major time zones we're targeting, so that participants can actually see when there are mentors available. If a mentor is actually from my time zone shouldn't be relevant. I can get help from someone living in the US or in India even if I'm from Europe and vice-versa.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>This makes sense to me... my preference would be to show UTC and all time zones we targeting so people don't have to do the conversion and they don't walk away because they have to do the conversions themselves :wink:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>I take a look at the schedule on the event page and there is no mentor listed for that time slot in my time zone.Another suggestion could be to simply list the mentors names / nicknames and a message “check which mentor is online, say hi and ask your question”</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>In this way not only we avoid this timezone hell :fire: . But by asking the question online, other people can reply, in case the mentor is in :toilet: break :smile:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Ha… right, I guess we don’t have to show all the times on the event page but internally it’s good to know the coverage</td> </tr> <tr> <td>FeyP</td> <td>I like that, but then we should spare people the check, who is online. They could just ask the question ;).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>FeyP</td> <td>And yeah, I guess the spreadsheet is still needed internally, but it would be easier for the participants.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>I like that, but then we should spare people the check, who is online.It’s good for people to be aware someone is there to help. Then if they want to ask without addressing the issue to the mentors online that’s up to them.But yet, I agree with you on having a centralised - maybe internal - view of coverage.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>Yeah, timezone hell always drives me crazy, if I'm not in one of most popular ones... Maybe use something like <a href="https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/calendar">https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/calendar</a> to manage this?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>FeyP</td> <td>It’s good for people to be aware someone is there to help.That's true. It's just that it's an additional step that I think is not really needed. If people want to check, who is online, that's fine. But they could also just ask their question and if we have sufficient coverage, someone will answer soon. Personally, I don't even know how I would check if a random Slack user is online without having exchanged dms previously or looking at their profile when I already see one of their messages. And I've been a Slack user for some time now, so I probably count as "experienced". So I wouldn't put that on the event page. You could word it in a way that implies it's optional, but I wouldn't word it in a way that sounds like it's a requirement, because then it might be an additional hurdle for participants to ask questions. (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>I think some link like "discuss this issue in chat" on issue's web page should involve more people in conversation about the issue. But this is not suite for all the times, so maybe enable it only during porting days and only for related tasks? And during porting days there is always someone who can answer in chat or join to already going conversation with help, so posting questions to a public chat is a better way, than providing direct chat with someone. (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>Yep, I’m all about simplicity. Getting rid of timezones is my target, so I’ll clap whatever we decide next :smile:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alexey Murz Korepov</td> <td>I think some link like "discuss this issue in chat" on issue's web page should involve more people in conversation about the issue. This thing bring me a more wide idea about integrating projects with Slack chatrooms, I've filled a feature request about this: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/project/issues/3323365" title="Status: Active">#3323365: Add a separate field to fill support channels and hours info for a project</a></span> (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>FeyP</td> <td>Good idea! I guess it probably won't happen while d.o is still on D7, but might be a thing for the D9 migration. We might also look into how this could be done in GitLab, where the issues will eventually be migrated to.  If we manage to implement this dashboard/landing page you had in mind, then I guess we could also add such a feature there.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Good stuff and agree… let’s make it simpler since time zones are painful :laughing:</td> </tr> </table> <h2>8️⃣ by @gusaus Moving this initiative under the EOWG (Event Organizers Working Group)</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Based on my understanding, the proposal is to make this initiative as a "sub-initiative" or "sub-group" under the EOWG though the operation of it doesn't seem like it would change. So, other than just saying this is part of EOWG, I guess I'm still not clear what would "change". But, I haven't caught up on any recent related chats around this so maybe this was covered somewhere? (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>I don’t mind.Last time I checked EOWG was a barely active community, but rather a forum where to share tips and tools when running local events.So people were connected (and connecting) on a when-needed basis.But IMO the WHERE we meet/talk/organise doesn’t matter really, so if we move to a new “home” so be it :smile:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nico Grienauer (he/him)</td> <td>we have regular meetings. but more people welcome. also <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/event_platform">https://www.drupal.org/project/event_platform</a> was recently created… and we use it for DDD. works 🙂</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Thanks to @Kristen Pol (she/her) for starting this conversation right before the meeting last night :raised_hands:, I think we have enough clarity to continue this discussion and make some decisions before the meeting is supposed to end (5pm UTC?).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>First a couple qualifying questions. Are these meetings considered contribution events? If not, could they be?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>@gambry Were you checking in on the EOWG Slack? If yes, the perceived inactivity may be because they made a decision to centralize activity in #event-organizers 📣</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Based on my understanding, the proposal is to make this initiative as a "sub-initiative" or "sub-group" under the EOWG though the operation of it doesn't seem like it would change.I think we should all reference for context <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3285490" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3285490</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Here's another question - considering <a href="https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution">https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution</a> is now set up to support both... and the entire community. Meaning it can help secure resources to accomplish 1-7 in <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3285490" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_events/-/work_items/3285490</a></span>#comment-14577886....</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>...and considering the goals listed on the project page overlap with #event-organizersThe goals of this community project include the followingAllow contribution events to easily credit organizers, mentors, participants, and sponsorsCreate documentation to help individuals and organizations host contribution eventsIncrease the number, type, and attendance for contribution events</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>If just makes sense to join forces - meaning the organizers of both collaborate in one channel and project</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>With regards to this one being a sub-initiative... I don't think that's necessary - it could just be one</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>@gambry The EOWG has been very active afaik... just it was in their own Slack workspace for a long time so not as visible... that said, although I had heard of EOWG in passing before creating this initiative, I didn't really know what it was or that it was so organized... I think I thought it was just for local event organizers to connect. I didn't really remember EOWG when creating this initiative. It wasn't/isn't in the community initiatives so it wasn't obvious when creating it here <a href="https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives">https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>@gusaus "sub-initiative" or "sub-group" is the same thing IMO... just semantics</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Why? <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1669141032741319?thread_ts=1669098869.979089&cid=C03FH8GTB1A">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1669141032741319?thread_ts=1669098869.979089&cid=C03FH8GTB1A</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>@froboy Maybe you could help our understanding of what would "change" if this initiative moved "under" EOWG. That's the part I'm struggling with. EOWG has a formal board fwir</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>@Kristen Pol (she/her) I don't think it should be any type of 'sub' - even though just saying that is making me hungry</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Why is not the answer I was looking for</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>But I'll answer after reading over the incoming typing</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>EOWG has "sub-groups"... or maybe I'm not remembering the right term... they have groups that focus on different things, e.g. the community events page or the event website distribution thing or marketing (I think)... anyway, they have "groups" / "sub-groups" / whatever you want to call it... we had talked about possibly making this initiative a group/sub-group/whatever focused on contribution events</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Found it... the call them initiatives: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/3200470">https://www.drupal.org/node/3200470</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>@gusaus Just don't understand why you want to call these meetings "contribution events"?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>I don't think I suggested that - just wondering</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>So I think we agree that the 'how' would still need be worked out. And again - the fact that <a href="https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution">https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution</a> exists changes many things</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>I'm just thinking about the activities in this channel (now that we've decoupled Drupal Contribution). Seems to me like it all revolves around some aspect of organizing events.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>The people helping coordinate could be considered event organizers</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Where there's been a long standing group and channel with folks (many of the same folks) working on similar things</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>With regards to my question about meetings being considered events.... it ties into the fact that Drupal Contribution needs to be sort of a top tier strategic initiative with its own channel, project, website, etc.Reason I'm bringing that up here is IF it made sense to centralize event organizing activities in #event-organizers we could potentially rename this one to 'contribution-initiative' rather than create a new channel with that same nameMy main hesitation for even suggesting that option (which I believe I've already done in related convos :sweat_smile:) is I thought it might introduce another layer of confusion.Again the fact that <a href="https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution">https://opencollective.com/drupal-contribution</a> exists should prevent that - because we will be using the events feature on that collective to promote and sustain 'contribution events'.The definition is up to the team of organizers - which includes @liberatr (he/him) @hestenet (he/him) and other folks that would like to join (any of the collective admins should be able to add you).So if we use that collective to promote these meetings, we 'could' keep having them here even if the channel name is changed.Whatever ends up making sense - I'm just saying that enabling contribution events will be a primary function of the collective (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Another reason for a simple channel namechange would be all the conversations about Open Collective, the open social website... other stuff considered out of scope... would be very much on-topic as those are in-fact top priorities for the much larger scale initiative.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Not so much building anything (we already have access to all the websites and tools) - we need to include sponsor perks like "your logo being displayed on our website(s), project page,  initiative page, etc.".And considering we're going to be making a year end fundraising push beginning on Giving Tuesday  (that's going to be one of my focus areas) we really need those perks and tiers defined on our collective(s) beforehand.I'll update the google docs accordingly, but the outcome of this discussion will determine whether Drupal Contribution needs to create a new channel, project, and initiative.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>I want to clarify that I joined the Drupal Contribution group on Open Collective because sometimes you need a quorum to really achieve transparency. If I can contribute to that I will. As far as making Contribution Events part of EOWG — as long as it is seen as mutually beneficial by the EOWG members and the folks in this channel, it makes sense.I doubt anyone would have to move to a new channel to have a discussion, for example DDI has a handful of rooms they use for different business. Possibly a few things would get cross-posted, but immediately nothing would change. If EOWG wanted to use a collective to channel some funding, there is a Collective that can provide that transparency, escrow, tax-deductible status, and visibility / accessibility of being able to use PayPal or whatever to collect and distribute funds.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>:question: How can we make a decision on this? It seems like everybody is open to joining forces with #event-organizers and that wouldn't affect how this channel/project/initiative functions outside of a slight change in naming...Contribution Events Initiative --> Drupal Contribution InitiativeContribution Events --> Drupal Contribution#contribution-events --> #contribution-initiative...and some relatively minor copy revisionsThere may be some issues where it might make sense to transfer, but looking at this now, I'm not really seeing many that would suddenly seem out of scope if the name changed.Can we vote?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>froboy</td> <td>Hey folks, trying to catch up here. I’m AFK this week but everything above seems to ring true. In my opinion not much but some organizational structure and naming would need to change… EOWG would benefit from the new activity and reach that this group has, hoping you could benefit from our status as an official working group (although ask @Kristen Pol (she/her) said, the difference between AJ initiativr and a working group seems to be vague). We already get a table at DrupalCon, some other minor benefits.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>froboy</td> <td>Logistically… we do what Gus and Ryan suggested above, figure out how to work someone/few folks from this group into the EOWG board, then… profit?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>Thanks :pray: you can reply next week after the holidays… my concerns are I don’t want to lose this channel as we’ve had a lot of success and interaction here… I’m also worried about the “name change” mentioned… what would that look like? I’ve invested a ton of blood sweat and tears :D into this initiative so I am worried about causing confusion and losing people if things are moved and renamed</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>This may be worth jumping on a call after the holidays though to hash things out more concretely</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>@Kristen Pol (she/her) I don't think it would even be noticeable -Contribution Events Initiative --> Drupal Contribution InitiativeContribution Events --> Drupal Contribution#contribution-events --> #contribution-initiative</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>And I don't think anything would really need to change in terms of what goes on here. Since we will be supporting contribution events on the collective and Open Social website.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Like I said, I don't think we'd even have to transfer issues - since even the ones focusing on contribution events (the primary activity now) are again something Drupal Contribution supports.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>If anything... because we're going to have a budget to pay contributors - there will be more activity in the channel, not less</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>My fear is creating a new channel, project, and initiative would actually cause more confusion, fragmentation, and additional work for the current organizers. Personally, as someone whose contributed a lot of time to both, I feel like I should have a bit of influence in making these types of decisions. Especially if a decision to start fresh would most likely fall on me to set everything up - which I wouldn't be able to do without a budget.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>Personally I am in favor of keeping the name that arose organically. Changing the name for an envisioned future where there will be more things than just “events” seems like —> why not just keep the “events” until it doesn’t fit? A snail doesn’t just move into a bigger shell overnight, but they can still move a lot farther and faster than you think.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Events will continue to be a primary activity - especially if we broaden the definition to include meetings (which aside from a few contribution events is the only constant).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>And even those - if you omit the discussions and agenda items revolving around things that don't focus on events themselves, I don't really agree there's much activity - usually a handful of folks</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Drupal Contribution is intended to support and sustain the entire community - it's confusing already having certain convos in this channel as is</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>....and I gotta jump and pick up Stacy at Fred Meyers</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>I’m saying don’t kill Contribution Events channel for the sake of trying to expand</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>that's not code - but realize most portlanders will get what I'm saying</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Ok - I probably shouda just walked</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>Jumping make you too tired?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>I’m saying don’t kill Contribution Events channelI'm not suggesting that - I'm saying the current activities could still happen here... if for whatever reason it wouldn't make sense to discuss coordinating events in the #event-organizers channel</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>It doesn't make sense for two channels with a very similar purpose doing the same thing - especially when it seems like all the organizers are warm to the idea of joining forces</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>I mean, it's really up to y'all - I'm not really a contributor to either (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>I’d say EOWG is more about “How do we run effective events” in general and this channel is more “We are running this event” or “these events” specifically</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>and some of them are the Code sprints / contrubution events that happen during the “Events” from EOWG and some are standalone</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>but each member or EOWG is involved with one or more “Events” they organize in other places, like “DrupalCamp Asheville”</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>If I was an event organizer, I'd want to centralize activity as much as possible - seems like there's an assumption of what one group/channel does and doesn't do. (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>and the people from #contribution-events could help DCA organize the contrib portion of their weekend</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>but the people from EOWG are also worrying about how to serve lunch, make t-shirts, hire alligator handlers, coordinate speaker schedules, etc. There is a large overlap in the Venn diagram but it’s not 1:1 in my eyes</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>I am just one person and I can be wrong</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Ok - so there would need to be another channel #drupal-contribution (the scope of the initiative warrants it's own channel) where a primary activity will be to coordinate events - that's more fragmentation and duplication</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>I don’t believe that’s what I said - if you’re coordinating a contribution event, do it in this channel</td> </tr> <tr> <td>liberatr (he/him)</td> <td>If you’re building Drupal Dojo version 3, that might need its own channel</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>#drupal-dojo has been lingering for a long time</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>I guess it's ok to have #drupal-contribution be a very low key channel with just the organizers doing high level coordination</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>I get that it's hard to map this out and try to predict outcomes</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>I'm totally fine with spinning off into a new channel if that'll prevent disruption.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>That will create extra work and confusion simply because most of the convos around open collective, the website, etc. would have to be continued elsewhere. Not a huge deal - except I know folks will miss my presence here :joy:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>The bigger issue (at least to me) would be the initiative and project. If it makes sense to merge with EOWG (and divvy up activities between multiple channels), would you need a separate project and initiative. If the answer is no, would there be any problem making slight adjustments to the existing ones?Contribution Events Initiative --> Drupal Contribution InitiativeContribution Events --> Drupal Contribution</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>I’ve mostly caught up but really should read this with fresh eyes after Thanksgiving</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Again - the scope of Drupal Contribution requires that it has it's own - so either it starts from scratch or does a simple remodel of something that was built with a lot of :hearts:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>@Kristen Pol (she/her) You mean after the holiday weekend? Which would be fine as long as there's clarity before Giving Tuesday (when I'm planning on pivoting to fundraising). Reason being... until there are available folks interested/able to create a new initiative, project, etc., I'd need to focus on other collectives (mainly off Drupal) that have capacity and access to funds.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>I can probably look Friday so feel free to ping me</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>If online at all over the long weekend, it'll probably be focusing in another Slack. I'm totally good with whatever y'all to do with the channels (I would recommend just starting a conversation in #event-organizers about the pros/cons of multiple event organizer channels and maybe even the projects and initiatives.My main concern is actually having prime web real estate in which to credit sponsors.Assuming there won't be any pushback on Drupal Contribution owning this issue, decisions on the drupal.org project and initiative would be less of priority (although I still strongly recommend we just remodel the existing (instead of starting from scratch) :businesscat:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>I tried to read most of this conversation (slack was jumping up and down randomly, so apologies if I miss any message).I’d say EOWG is more about “How do we run effective events” in general and this channel is more “We are running this event” or “these events” specificallyThat was my understanding too, which I shared at the very beginning of this thread.Yes, EOWG does work as a community for this or that project. But the goal is to optimise the running of their localised events. Camps, Meetups, Conferences. So the organisation of the events is NOT done in #event-organizers, nor by its community. It’s done by single individuals who decide where, how, and when.A different matter is events organised by the community and for the community. So Virtual events running globally (i.e. Porting days),  or centralised organisations promoting same-topic local events (Drupal 10 parties, Global Contribution Week).The two streams have needs and coverages completely different. Mixing them could be a mistake, in the sense of a single space(/channel/community/initiative) will have two different souls, talking to each other only in very limited situations.Another topic: Drupal Contribution.What contribution? Currently, people can contribute in many ways: code, reviews, UI, translations, support, events, documentation, and mentoring. Basically take all channels in this slack workspace, and that’s likely within the definition of Drupal Contribution.I’ve already shared this view: without global coordination (i.e. from DA) working on moving “contribution” here or there, any attempt will only divide rather than multiply.There is OpenCollective, then OpenSocial (blocked by my corporate firewall), the DA is promoting decommission of groups.drupal.org in favour of Community Events in d.org.I’m very confused about the reasons, goals, and path behind this proposal.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>Now, better be positive and propositive.I don’t see reasons for merging Contribution Events community with EOWG. Instead, I would rather better define their scopes, and so goals and borders.OpenSocial / OpenCollective: there is too much noise. Original ideas, short term goals and long term missions are all mixed together. I would roll everything back and formulate simply statements:Current needsHow X platform would solve itBenefits vs RisksSatellite view planWe propose it to the community and the DA, we gather initial consensus and put a more defined plan, with first steps.If this has already been done, please link the work.Thanks and LOTS OF LOVE!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>We're not doing our traditional 2-5 hr drive up to Seattle this year, so a few moments to leave some additional thoughts/recommendations based on this really productive conversation so (which I'm thankful for 💙).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>First off I'd recommend keeping the event channels and projects separate and intact... but modified based on a discussion (maybe a Slack discussion in one of the channels next week?) where folks can lay out all the goals, priorities, accomplishments, resources, needs, blockers, etc. and then figure out how each project and channel can be leveraged to achieve the goals without duplication and fragmentation.Probably not using the right words, but hope that kinda makes sense.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Ideally another outcome of that discussion will be whether or not the Contribution Events should be a stand-alone initiative. I don't really get the difference between a working group and a 'community' initiative. Added 'community' as a qualifier because I 'think' a strategic initiative is like a DA/Dries approved kinda thing? I know there are good docs about that, but I'm not going to dig them up right now.Makes sense to me that everyone should unify around the one that's more established, has history, and a larger team. Whether or not Contribution Events should be a sub-initiative could also be discussed, but it seems like as long as goals and issues are split between projects, there could just be the one EOWG.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>Real quick point on Drupal Contribution - currently it's just a collective <a href="https://opencollective.com/drupal-contributionSummary">https://opencollective.com/drupal-contributionSummary</a> reason for that being confusing is it's still being defined and those discussions have been scattered all over the place.Based on the feedback so far, it's obvious it needs to be a separate project (starting from scratch) and channel. The latter I just created #drupal-contributionIt also needs to be an org (on drupal.org) - mainly because it is a nonprofit org via fiscal sponsorship with <a href="https://opencollective.com/foundationI">https://opencollective.com/foundationI</a> think everybody involved in wanting and setting that up assumed Drupal Contribution would also be a community or strategic initiative.My first question in #drupal-contribution will be the following. If Drupal Contribution is an org on drupal.org - does it actually 'need' to be set up as an initiative?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>And on that note, I gotta get to Podnah's to pick up our turkey before they close :drupalparrot:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>@Kristen Pol (she/her) The external Slack for EOWG provides a good example of how to promote Slack meetings as events (since it's the only thing happening in that Slack for the most part). Based on that, I think folks in #event-organizers would be able to provide valuable input on how to define and how to set something like that up in this channel for 'contribution events'. :handshake:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gusaus</td> <td>First call to action in the new channel.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>9️⃣ by @gambry Organisation of 2023 Global Contribution Week</h2> <table> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>See discussion in <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1667405623549199">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C03FH8GTB1A/p1667405623549199</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>GCW is an event mainly run by local meetups, with on some occasions virtual (local) events as well.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>The global organizers effort would really minimal: just promotion, and updating the landing page with new registrations.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol (she/her)</td> <td>It would be great if people would volunteer to help with this organization and promotion :heart_eyes: I will be traveling for some time so I cannot help with this other than retweets and similar</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gambry</td> <td>I certainly can help with organisation, but I’m more concerned about building consensus first, so we don’t go each of us in our own way.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>Oh! I forgot to do the final closing message last night 🙂</h2> <h2>🔟 That's all folks, thank you for attending! 💙 This meeting is officially open for the next 23* hours, so please continue the conversation in the threads above. We also welcome feedback on the meeting structure and agenda via this thread, Slack, or issue queue! [* well... not 23 now... about another 10 🙂] (edited) </h2>

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