Set up Eclipse Foundation Development Process and IP Policy Office Hours
I'd like to establish and publicise a monthly cadence of office hours. I'm thinking that we go with an Office Hours (or "Ask Me Anything") sort of theme, but -- since I'm not convinced that it will be consistently well-attended -- I'm thinking that we record and share a 5-10 presentation at the beginning of each.
The description is something along these lines:
We'll use this call to discuss the Eclipse Foundation Development Process, changes to the Eclipse IP Policy and Due Diligence Process, and other related topics. All Eclipse open source project committers are invited to join. The format is flexible: we generally start with a very short presentation followed by by a question and answer session. Bring your questions and the Eclipse Management Organisation team will try to provide answers.
I'm thinking that we:
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We set a regular time, e.g., every fourth Thursday at 9:00am; -
Set up an "EMO" calendar that lists these sessions; -
We share (embed) the calendar on a web page; (Eclipse Projects Calendar). -
Use a Zoom Meeting ID that is specific to the meeting (e.g., don't use a personal meeting ID); -
Send out a regular reminder to committers to eclipse.org-committers mailing list; -
Make it part of the "welcome package" for new project and new committers; and -
Get the marketing team to help us... well... market this.
I don't think that we necessarily have to do very much planning. Perhaps we make planning for this a standing item during our weekly team meeting.
Since I don't think that much planning is required, I recommend that we just schedule the first three, starting in the last week of November, and then evolve the concept from that experience.
I don't think that we all necessarily have to attend every session, but we should all plan to attend at least some of them.
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