Polis: Run open community calls (May)

[patcon]

:date: Date: Fri, May 1 @ 10:30-11:30am ET
:telephone_receiver: Call Link: https://meet.jit.si/pol.is
💬 Chat: https://gitter.im/pol-is/polisDeployment

Ohai! This is an issue to announce the May open community call for polis development! Anyone is welcome to attend, though note that this isn't an orientation call (those are held separately), so we may not be able to answer all your newcomer questions on this one 😉

This issue can be used for lots of things, like:

• 📝 helping us build an agenda of things people want to talk about (speak up! ask questions!)
• :wave: introduce yourself or announce interest or intent to join
• ✅ tracking decisions and todos coming out of the call
• ❓ Other things? This is only our second monthly call, so we're open to suggestions!

Notes: https://hackmd.io/xJ2XZa6mSWeCp4sd_rQepg?view
Issue for last month's call: https://github.com/pol-is/polis-issues/issues/128

• What would you like to see discussed? Is there anything you'd like to see moved forward?
• Are you interested to join this month? For future calls?

cc @ballPointPenguin, @crkrenn, @david-nadaraia, @colinmegill, @metasoarous, @urakagi, @patcon, @joshsmith2, @misscs, @rohanrichards, @virgile-dev, @ricardopoppi (mentioning some ppl, but not exclusive)

Summary

Agenda

• ...

Decisions

• ...

To Dos

• [x] run meeting
• [ ] clean up notes
• [ ] process todos into github issues

[patcon]

We had a productive call with @ballPointPenguin @crkrenn @joshsmith2 and I! Notes are half cleaned-up -- will finish and process them into any necessary tickets this week.

We're now planning to informally meet each week.

Since @metasoarous isn't able to attend our prior timeslot (gitter chat context, we'll be rescheduling.

If anyone's interested to attend future meetings, please share your general weekly availability here (ignore the specific dates, just focus on day of week; hover timeslot for details)
https://www.when2meet.com/?9086143-sc4QA

We'll use that to help schedule future calls that are available to as many people as possible 🙌

Notes: https://hackmd.io/xJ2XZa6mSWeCp4sd_rQepg?view#2020-05-01-Monthly-Call

To Dos

• [ ] clean up notes
• [ ] cross-ref to issues and/or create new tickets
• [ ] ...

[patcon]

FYI, still planning to meet in the same timeslot tomorrow, until we have a solid new slot with a week of notice.

[patcon]

Realized this ticket can be for all May calls.

For Fri, May 8 call, we had @crkrenn, @ballPointPenguin, and I 🎉 (@joshsmith2 busy this week and couldn't make it)

Notes: https://bit.ly/polis-calls

🗣️ Discussions

• @crkrenn & david's pending rewrite proposal
  
  
  
  • JS frameworks
  
  
• onboarding directions
• committing to this week's work
• new meeting time

💡 Ideas

• LONGTERM: make onboarding video -- @ballPointPenguin
• set up pairing times -- @ballPointPenguin

✅ To Dos

• [x] clean up notes
• [x] publicize project board reticketed https://github.com/pol-is/polisServer/issues/79

🔜 Next call is Sat, May 16 @ 3pm ET with @metasoarous

[patcon]

@ballPointPenguin feel like setting any pairing time-blocks, or wanna let it simmer a bit?

[ballPointPenguin]

@ballPointPenguin feel like setting any pairing time-blocks, or wanna let it simmer a bit?

I haven't decided the best way to go about this. Scheduling is hard, it turns out. I am considering establishing "open source office hours" of sorts, for this and other projects. Those time blocks would be the best times to pair. Currently I'm thinking Tuesdays/Thursdays 5pm-10pm Pacific Time (00:00-05:00 UTC Wed/Fri).

[patcon]

Cool! Were you thinking drop-in, or by-request?

What if, outside your general time, we together committed to a smaller timerange as a more committed standing time for pol.is specifically? I'd be down to timeshare or be backup if that helps. I ask as I've been thinking on a prominent "How to Participate" / "Get Involved" section of our readme: https://github.com/pol-is/polisServer/issues/252

[patcon]

call is wrapped up! just me an @metasoarous today! rough notes here: https://bit.ly/polis-calls (will clean up and re-ticket later)

[patcon]

Done another call! This week, included @metasoarous (for the first bit) @crkrenn @ballPointPenguin and @patcon. Notes here: https://bit.ly/polis-calls#2020-05-23

[patcon]

Call Summary

(def call me out if I misinterpreted anything :) )

• discussed communication challenges (gitter & github notifications)
  
  
  
  • DECIDED to stick with Gitter for now, for sake of simplicity and ease of access
  
  
  • DECIDED to favour public convos over private 1-on-1's, despite noise
  
  
  • open to trying other tools, but not feeling urgency.
  
  
• expression of interest in non-technical conversation spaces, e.g. democracy and power.
  
  
  
  • like reading group, monthly call, etc.
  
  
  • agreement that doesn't need to be led by technical folks
  
  
• docker development and build server
  
  
  
  • going well. ben manually building and pushing to https://hub.docker.com/orgs/polisdemo/repositories
  
  
  • DECIDED that we're open to trying either: CircleCI, GitHub Actions
  
  
  • ACTION work on build server (patcon+ben)
  
  
• ben purchased polisdemo.tech domain, and willing to collective and use for automated staging
• ACTION: create a service inventory doc (example) to track tools we're using (patcon)
• ben is interested to experiment with ways of sharing development experience, like:
  
  
  
  • paired programming session using remote tools, or
  
  
  • streaming coding sessions on twitch.tv
  
  
  • ACTION: explore remote collab tools for coding and streaming (ben+others)
  
  
  • ACTION set future hours/timeslot for collab coding (ben+others)
  
  
• QUESTION: how can we best support new contributors and their dev needs? (ben)

[patcon]

yeow! @metasoarous @ballPointPenguin and I just got off a call where we ran through a bunch of technical and non-technical discussions. Aaaaaaand we had a SPACE PARTY 🛰️

Notes here: https://bit.ly/polis-calls#2020-05-23 (will clean and summarize soon)

sorry to miss you @jgroenen @crkrenn @joshsmith2 😿

[metasoarous]

As recently announced, I'm going to be starting fortnightly office hours. Please see this GH Discussions announcement:
https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/discussions/907

Thanks