From 79d686d43ba91bc5635447a63a98ac602e9791c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leo Vivier Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:18:31 +0200 Subject: Push notes from last session --- 2021/meetings.org | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to '2021/meetings.org') diff --git a/2021/meetings.org b/2021/meetings.org index f13ad338..ce4e53cc 100644 --- a/2021/meetings.org +++ b/2021/meetings.org @@ -52,14 +52,20 @@ - Coming up with a way to coordinate meetings with *all* the organisers of the EmacsConf (rather than the core subset) - Coming up with a calendar for the next edition - Decide whether the live-version of the EmacsConf 2020 can be axed by [2021-06-12 Sat] - - Coming up with different tracks + - Coming up with different tracks (TODO for [2021-08-21 Sat] ) - Meta track (for EmacsVerse stuff) - - Gaming + - Community - Org + - org-roam - Multimedia & Fun - Gaming - Music + - Dev + - Emacs core + - Other emacs stuff + - Research - Beginner’s track (dto & mplsCorwin?) + - We could also use sachac’s list of categories for Emacs news as input - EmacsVerse - Vet Mailman and exim instance for usergroups: bandali @@ -69,6 +75,84 @@ - mplsCorwin's livestreaming project, working on trimming - Diversity outreach: gopar, sachac, zaeph, mplsCorwin +* August 14, 2021 meeting + +- Important next actions from last time for today [2021-07-29 Thu 20:30] (UTC): + - CFP + - All done last week! + - Office hours + - Find other timeslots where we’d be available for office hours (tentative for now; no commitment, just feeling the water) + +- Check-in + - bandali + - Doing good! Atg a rainy time at the camping, but had a good time overall + - corwin (no longer mplsCorwin thanks to the Freenode exodus!) + - Has been putting a lot of work with FOSSHost + - Managed to get some work done on dungeon-mode + - Put some work on orgvm to update org via the web-browser (on corwin’s SourceHut) + - [[https://git.sr.ht/~mplscorwin/orgvm][~mplscorwin/orgvm - sourcehut git]] (do you want this published on the wiki, corwin?) + - This particular exploration was informed by corwin’s discovery of comic-chat which made him explore the NodeJS implementation + - sachac + - Managed to join us! + +- Quick thoughts on involving the public in the review process for the proposals + - sachac: Maybe put anonymized proposals on a wiki page, unless there's anything that's kinda iffy? + +- CFP + - Numbers for the CFP (via the nginx logs) + - Total visits: 100k + - Unique visitors 12k + - Pretty large numbers altogether! + - We should probably run this regularly (bi-weekly) to quantify /when/ people are participating + - Nudging people in directions that we want (sachac) + - In a couple of weeks? + +- Office hours + - Figuring out a schedule with every orgas (or users?) who want to get involved) + - Right now, we need to find a second slot that would be friendly to East Asia and Oceania + - Availabilities + - bandali will be away from <2021-08-21 Sat> to <2021-08-24 Tue> + - zaeph is available all summer + - Even if nobody shows up to the early office hours, there’s no rush: they’ll be running until the end of the CFP, and orgas can work on the office hours or on EmacsConf during them. :) + +- Alternative method for helping people: assisting during the recording + - Orgas could attend the recording of the presentations and ask questions to the presenter (which may or may not be included + +- TODO Next actions + - Everyone + - Come up with an exhaustive list of topics/tracks for the next edition + - Find the first TODO this document under [[#ongoing-projects][file:~/emacsconf.org::#ongoing-projects]] + - corwin + - Tue and Fri night (CST) TBC + +- Long running next actions: + - Project-based: + - bbb: + - BBB experimentations: + - See if increasing the RAM results in less CPU usage + - Gauge how much the number of present users affect the resources + - Working with the swap + - Decreasing the swapiness of the kernel might help + - Test RW speed (elsewhere than ~/tmp/~) + - Check if we can change the ffmpeg prioritisation for BBB (so as to get recordings out sooner, or to manage them ourselves) + - Does bbb spawn a ffmpeg process that we can investigate? + - Misc: + - Look into GLT21 to see if they have specifications/doc for their streaming + - We might want to discuss the podcast during the next session + - People-based: + - zaeph: + - Email Emacs NYC (and Cc sachac and bandali) to ask them if they’d be interested in hosting their sessions on our BBB instance (on FH) + - Organisers to content: + - admin@emacsnyc.org (goes to both Eric & Zach) + - Do the same with Emacs ATX? + - Do the same with M-x Research + - bandali: + - Prepare the announcement email for the Improvement Meeting™ + - Wiki updates for references to freenode + - Check if there is anything important on live0 that would need archiving (besides the raw EmacsConf2020 ಠ_ಠ) + - Listing the specs for the non-FH servers (very quick) + - Wipe the private-repo + * July 24, 2021 meeting - Check-in -- cgit v1.2.3